octogenarian

英語

詞源

借自拉丁語 octōgēnārius + -an (構成形容詞和代表名詞的後綴)，直接借自法語 octogénaire或經其傳入，源自拉丁語 octōgēnus (“各八十”) + -ārius，源自 octōgintā (“八個十，八十”)。

發音

• (通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˌɑktəd͡ʒɪˈnɛɹiən/
• (標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˌɒktəd͡ʒɪˈnɛəɹɪən/

• 音頻 (南英格蘭)：

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名詞

octogenarian (複數 octogenarians)

1. eightysomething (“八旬老人”)之同義詞
   • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 75f; emphasis in original):

     Mama was by no means the only grandma present, for the octogenarians had turned out en masse from their huts and lean-tos and were paddling about, diving and splashing as unconcernedly as though they really belonged in the sea rather than on land.

   • 1941 October, “Notes and News: Finsbury Park Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 466:

     Finsbury Park station, one of the most important L.N.E.R. suburban junctions, is now an octogenarian.

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   • 1951, IBM Corp., Proceedings, Computation Seminar, page 13:

     To replace logarithmic tables with natural tables required some time. This seems like a modern age, yet I am not an octogenarian and I can remember the dying gasp of the logarithmic table as the standard method of computation. I have seen the desk calculator become a necessary instrument for every scientist who is doing quantitative work.

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   • 2024 November 6, Linda Feldmann, “What Trump’s historic victory says about America”, in The Christian Science Monitor‎^[1]:

     First up for recriminations may be President Biden. What if the octogenarian had stuck to his original suggestion that he’d be a “bridge” president – i.e., a one-termer – and announced he wouldn’t run for a second term early last year, allowing for a proper primary competition among the next generation of Democratic leaders?

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派生詞彙

• octogenarianism

形容詞

octogenarian (無比較級)

1. 八旬的，八十歲到八十九歲的

   同類詞：vicenarian, tricenarian, quadragenarian, quinquagenarian, semicentenarian, hexagenarian, sexagenarian, septuagenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian, semisupercentenarian, supercentenarian

近義詞

• octogenary (棄用)

參考資料

• “octogenarian, n. and adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.