• n. 八度音階；八行詩；十四行詩的前八行；八個一組的事物
• adj. 八個一組的；高八度音的
• n. (Octave)人名；(英、法)奧克塔夫

音樂術(shù)語，來自octa-,八，-ave,名詞后綴。

octave (n.)

c. 1300, utaves (plural, via Anglo-French from popular Old French form oitieve, otaves), reformed in early 15c., from Medieval Latin octava, from Latin octava dies "eighth day," fem. of octavus "eighth," from octo (see eight). Originally "period of eight days after a festival," also "eighth day after a festival" (counting both days, by inclusive reckoning, thus if the festival was on a Sunday, the octaves would be the following Sunday). Verse sense of "stanza of eight lines" is from 1580s; musical sense of "note eight diatonic degrees above (or below) a given note" is first recorded 1650s, from Latin octava (pars) "eighth part." Formerly English eighth was used in this sense (mid-15c.)

1. to play an octave higher

再奏高一個八度

來自《權(quán)威詞典》

2. Her voice went down an octave.

她的嗓音下降了八度.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. European music happens to use a scale of eight notes, hence the use of the term octave.

歐洲音樂湊巧采用了八音音階，“八度”一詞就由此而來。

來自柯林斯例句

4. Can you span an octave on the piano?

你一殼乍能按到鋼琴的八個鍵 嗎 ?

來自辭典例句

5. It covers about an octave.

它大約占一個倍頻程.

來自辭典例句