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arrow-up1186arrow-down1imageOctopuslemmy.worldBeastlygr@lemmy.world to Accidental Renaissance@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 14 days agomessage-square13linkfedilinkcross-posted to: forumlibre@jlai.lu
minus-squareMBMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·13 days agoNo. It doesn’t have the Latin ending -us, but actually ends with pus (fom the Greek word for foot). From the Greek origin, the plural would be octopodes. Octopuses is more usual.
No. It doesn’t have the Latin ending -us, but actually ends with pus (fom the Greek word for foot). From the Greek origin, the plural would be octopodes. Octopuses is more usual.