Word.ws English Dictionary

oitava

oitava noun: a traditional Portuguese unit of dry measure, equivalent to 1.6–2.4 liters in different 19th-century contexts.

Noun

oitava (plural oitavas)

  1. (historical) A traditional Portuguese unit of dry measure, equivalent to 1.6–2.4 liters in different 19th-century contexts.
  2. (historical) A traditional Portuguese unit of mass, usually equivalent to 3.6 grams.
  3. (historical) A traditional Brazilian unit of weight, equivalent to 17.44 carats, typically used for gold and precious stones.

Synonyms of oitava

Forms of oitava

pluraloitavas
alternative formoutava

Origin of oitava

From Portuguese oitava, from Old Galician-Portuguese oitavo, from Latin octāvus (“eighth”), q.v., in reference to it making up one-eighth of the alqueire (Portuguese bushel) or onça (Portuguese ounce). Doublet of octave, octavo, and ochava.

Questions about oitava

What does oitava mean?
Oitava means a traditional Portuguese unit of dry measure, equivalent to 1.6–2.4 liters in different 19th-century contexts.
What part of speech is oitava?
Oitava is a noun.
What is the plural of oitava?
The plural of oitava is oitavas.

Words near oitava in the dictionary

  1. oister
  2. oisters
  3. Oisterwijk
  4. OIT
  5. Oita
  6. oitava
  7. oitavas
  8. oiter
  9. oithonid
  10. oithonids
  11. oiticica

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: oitava (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “oitava.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/oitava. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.