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Octopodes is the historically accurate pluralization of Octopus, but modern English has adopted octopuses.
by unclad5968 1y ago
Octopodes is the historically accurate pluralization of Octopus, but modern English has adopted octopuses.
- SirFatty 1y agoIndeed.. "Octopodes – This is the correct plural in Ancient Greek, but it's very rare and sounds quite formal or academic."
- Rendello 1y agoWikipedia has a section in this, which I found interesting: > The standard pluralised form of octopus in English is octopuses; the Ancient Greek plural ὀκτώποδες, octopodes, has also been used historically. The alternative plural octopi is usually considered etymologically incorrect because it wrongly assumes that octopus is a Latin second-declension -us noun or adjective when, in either Greek or Latin, it is a third-declension noun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus#Etymology_and_pluralisation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus#Etymology_and_pluralis...