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Fyi octopus is a Greek not Latin word (meaning 8 feet) and its correct plural would be rather octopodes.
by fittingopposite 1mo ago
Fyi octopus is a Greek not Latin word (meaning 8 feet) and its correct plural would be rather octopodes.
- Nursie 1mo agoOctopi is equally correct because we're speaking English and frequency of use trumps etymological cromulence. Octopuses works too. I quite like "Octopods" because -podes is unusual in English, though not entirely absent (see Antipodes). (I'm not sure "an Octopi" is correct in any of these cases!)