Octolingual

"In 1539 Estienne reversed his Dictionarium, a direct descendant of his own Latin Thesaurus, into the Dictionnaire that was the ancestor of Nicot’s French Thresor. He did this because when popular demand required a reprinting of the octolingual Calepin, Estienne found this work unacceptable and a willing revisor unavailable."

"The Doktor was in the highest dudgeon. He kept shouting "pigs, louts, goatherds" in several languages; then he exhausted his octolingual vocabulary on words like Communists, deviationists, Reactionaries, and Imperialist dogs."

"Also an octolingual Yugoslavian who was a lieutenant in the French Foreign Legion and was imprisoned in Buchenwald during the war, a Berlin business man, an economics professor and a girl who was the private secretary for Dinah Shore for three years."