ὀκτάπους

See also: οκτάπους

Ancient Greek

From ὀκτᾰ- (oktă-, “eight”) +‎ πούς (poús, “foot”).

ὀκτᾰ́πους • (oktắpous) m or f (neuter ὀκτᾰ́πουν); third declension

Number	Singular		Dual		Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ὀκτᾰ́πους oktắpous	ὀκτᾰ́πουν oktắpoun	ὀκτᾰ́ποδε oktắpode	ὀκτᾰ́ποδε oktắpode	ὀκτᾰ́ποδες oktắpodes	ὀκτᾰ́ποδᾰ oktắpodă
Genitive	ὀκτᾰ́ποδος oktắpodos	ὀκτᾰ́ποδος oktắpodos	ὀκτᾰπόδοιν oktăpódoin	ὀκτᾰπόδοιν oktăpódoin	ὀκτᾰπόδων oktăpódōn	ὀκτᾰπόδων oktăpódōn
Dative	ὀκτᾰ́ποδῐ oktắpodĭ	ὀκτᾰ́ποδῐ oktắpodĭ	ὀκτᾰπόδοιν oktăpódoin	ὀκτᾰπόδοιν oktăpódoin	ὀκτᾰ́ποσῐ / ὀκτᾰ́ποσῐν oktắposĭ(n)	ὀκτᾰ́ποσῐ / ὀκτᾰ́ποσῐν oktắposĭ(n)
Accusative	ὀκτᾰ́ποδᾰ oktắpodă	ὀκτᾰ́πουν oktắpoun	ὀκτᾰ́ποδε oktắpode	ὀκτᾰ́ποδε oktắpode	ὀκτᾰ́ποδᾰς oktắpodăs	ὀκτᾰ́ποδᾰ oktắpodă
Vocative	ὀκτᾰ́πους oktắpous	ὀκτᾰ́πουν oktắpoun	ὀκτᾰ́ποδε oktắpode	ὀκτᾰ́ποδε oktắpode	ὀκτᾰ́ποδες oktắpodes	ὀκτᾰ́ποδᾰ oktắpodă
Derived forms	Adverb		Comparative		Superlative
Derived forms	ὀκτᾰπόδως oktăpódōs		—		—
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

ὀκτᾰ́πους • (oktắpous) m (genitive ὀκτᾰ́ποδος); ? declension

the common octopus, Octopus vulgaris
- 525 CE – 605 CE, Alexander of Tralles, Twelve Books on Medicine 7.1
(Scythian) a person who possessed two oxen and a cart
- 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, The Scythian 1

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὀκτᾰ́πους ho oktắpous	τὼ ὀκτᾰ́ποδε tṑ oktắpode	οἱ ὀκτᾰ́ποδες hoi oktắpodes
Genitive	τοῦ ὀκτᾰ́ποδος toû oktắpodos	τοῖν ὀκτᾰπόδοιν toîn oktăpódoin	τῶν ὀκτᾰπόδων tôn oktăpódōn
Dative	τῷ ὀκτᾰ́ποδῐ tôi oktắpodĭ	τοῖν ὀκτᾰπόδοιν toîn oktăpódoin	τοῖς ὀκτᾰ́ποσῐ / ὀκτᾰ́ποσῐν toîs oktắposĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν ὀκτᾰ́ποδᾰ tòn oktắpodă	τὼ ὀκτᾰ́ποδε tṑ oktắpode	τοὺς ὀκτᾰ́ποδᾰς toùs oktắpodăs
Vocative	ὀκτᾰ́πους oktắpous	ὀκτᾰ́ποδε oktắpode	ὀκτᾰ́ποδες oktắpodes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

“ὀκτάπους”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ὀκτάπους”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ὀκτάπους in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ὀκτάπους in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften