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Indeed.. "Octopodes – This is the correct plural in Ancient Greek, but it's very rare and sounds quite formal or academic."
by SirFatty 1y ago
Indeed..
"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...