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Oktoechos

Oktoechos is the alternative form of Octoechos.

Meaning of Octoechos

Proper noun

Octoechos

  1. A liturgical book containing a repertoire of hymns ordered in eight parts according to the eight echoi (tones or modes), used in many rites of Eastern Christianity.
  2. The eight-mode system used for the composition of religious chant in Byzantine, Syriac, Armenian, Georgian, Latin and Slavic churches since the Middle Ages.

Questions about Oktoechos

What is Oktoechos the alternative form of?
Oktoechos is the alternative form of Octoechos.

Words near Oktoechos in the dictionary

  1. Oktaha
  2. oktas
  3. Oktibbeha County
  4. Oktoberfest
  5. Oktoberfests
  6. Oktoechos
  7. Oktyabrsky
  8. OKU
  9. Okuda
  10. Okudagram
  11. Okudagrams

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Oktoechos (page history and authors); Octoechos (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.

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