πολύπους

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πολυ- (polu-, “many”) +‎ πούς (poús, “foot”).

Adjective

πολύπους • (polúpous) m or f (neuter πολύπουν); third declension

1. many-footed

Descendants

• → Latin: polypus

Noun

πολύπους • (polúpous) m (genitive πολύποδος); third declension

1. octopus, polypus
   • 1866, Aelian, edited by Rudolf Hercher, Claudii Aeliani de natura animalium libri xvii, varia historia, epistolae, fragmenta‎, Lipsiae: B.G. Teubneri:

     δεινοὶ κατὰ κοιλίαν εἰσὶν οἱ πολύποδες

     deinoì katà koilían eisìn hoi polúpodes

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1997, Aelian, translated by Nigel G. Wilson, Historical Miscellany (Loeb Classical Library 486)‎, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press:

     Δεινοὶ κατὰ κοιλίαν εἰσὶν οἱ πολύποδες

     Deinoì katà koilían eisìn hoi polúpodes

     Octopuses have remarkable stomachs

Inflection

Descendants

• → Latin: polypus

References

• “πολύπους”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πολύπους”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πολύπους in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “polyp”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• James Morwood, John Taylor (Editors), The Pocket Oxford Classical Greek Dictionary, New York: Oxford University Press →ISBN, page 265, 2002