The Latin word for "eight."
The prefix "octo" means eight. Refering to the eight legs that an octopus has :)
The prefix "octo-" means "eight." It is commonly used to denote something involving the number eight.
October, octopus, octopod, octogenarian. For geometric terms the prefix is generally octa, not octo.
Octo - the Greek word for "eight".
introspective prefix's and suffix's?
An octagon. Octo or octa is a prefix for eight
Prefixes meaning 4 are quad (Latin) and tetra (Greek).
In what situation? Telephones? Answer: NONA-9 Yup. A nine-sided polygon is called a nonagon (or enneagon).
It means eight. For example octagon -- eight sides octavalent -- eight atoms Sometimes octo is used as a prefix as in octopus
Octogon? If so, it's an 8 sided shape. The prefix "octo-" means 8.
An Octopus has 8 tentacles, the prefix octo means eight. In addition a Squid has 6 tentacles.
The prefix hepta- means seven. A heptagon is a polygon with seven sides. Other words that have this same prefix are: heptathlon, heptameter, herpetology, heptarch, heptads.