octolingual adjective3 •Written in eight languages.Makkai is the author of Cantio Nocturna Peregrini Aviumque [Nightsong of the Wanderer and the Birds], an octolingual book of poetry honoring Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s 250 anniversary in 1999. — 1997 •Characterized by the use or presence of eight languages. •Knowing eight languages.The faith he [Keshub Chunder Sen] preached was the Brahmo Samaj, founded in 1828 by the octolingual (Bengali, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic, English, Greek, Latin and Hebrew) scholar Raja Rammohun Roy. — 2004