octavius

Etymology
From, a misspelling or alteration of.

Noun

 * 1)   the pint (eighth of a gallon) in the apothecaries' system

Etymology
Misspelling or alteration of original (a New Latin coinage). Potential influences include analogy with the semantically related ordinal number, conflation with the form of the preexisting proper noun (from ), or misreading of the similarly-shaped letters r and v.

Noun

 * 1)   The pint (eighth of a gallon) in the apothecaries' system
 * In the body of the work we have no formula for making the fortior but for the liquor ammoniae :—
 * "℞ Ammoniae hydrochloratis, uncias decem
 * Calcis, uncias octo
 * Aquae, octavios duos
 * "Calcem aquâ resolutam in retortam mitte, dein ammoniae hydrochloratem in frustula contritam et reliquam aquam adjice. Distillent liquoris ammoniae fluid unciae quin decim."
 * "Calcem aquâ resolutam in retortam mitte, dein ammoniae hydrochloratem in frustula contritam et reliquam aquam adjice. Distillent liquoris ammoniae fluid unciae quin decim."