ὀκτάπους

See also: οκτάπους

Ancient Greek

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

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

Number	Singular		Dual		Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ὀκτᾰ́πους oktápous	ὀκτᾰ́πουν oktápoun	ὀκτᾰ́ποδε oktápode	ὀκτᾰ́ποδε oktápode	ὀκτᾰ́ποδες oktápodes	ὀκτᾰ́ποδᾰ oktápoda
Genitive	ὀκτᾰ́ποδος oktápodos	ὀκτᾰ́ποδος oktápodos	ὀκτᾰπόδοιν oktapódoin	ὀκτᾰπόδοιν oktapódoin	ὀκτᾰπόδων oktapódōn	ὀκτᾰπόδων oktapódōn
Dative	ὀκτᾰ́ποδῐ oktápodi	ὀκτᾰ́ποδῐ oktápodi	ὀκτᾰπόδοιν oktapódoin	ὀκτᾰπόδοιν oktapódoin	ὀκτᾰ́ποσῐ / ὀκτᾰ́ποσῐν oktáposi(n)	ὀκτᾰ́ποσῐ / ὀκτᾰ́ποσῐν oktáposi(n)
Accusative	ὀκτᾰ́ποδᾰ oktápoda	ὀκτᾰ́πουν oktápoun	ὀκτᾰ́ποδε oktápode	ὀκτᾰ́ποδε oktápode	ὀκτᾰ́ποδᾰς oktápodas	ὀκτᾰ́ποδᾰ oktápoda
Vocative	ὀκτᾰ́πους oktápous	ὀκτᾰ́πουν oktápoun	ὀκτᾰ́ποδε oktápode	ὀκτᾰ́ποδε oktápode	ὀκτᾰ́ποδες oktápodes	ὀκτᾰ́ποδᾰ oktápoda
Derived forms	Adverb		Comparative		Superlative
Derived forms	ὀκτᾰπόδως oktapódōs		—		—
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

ὀκτᾰ́πους • (oktápous) 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 oktápous	τὼ ὀκτᾰ́ποδε tṑ oktápode	οἱ ὀκτᾰ́ποδες hoi oktápodes
Genitive	τοῦ ὀκτᾰ́ποδος toû oktápodos	τοῖν ὀκτᾰπόδοιν toîn oktapódoin	τῶν ὀκτᾰπόδων tôn oktapódōn
Dative	τῷ ὀκτᾰ́ποδῐ tôi oktápodi	τοῖν ὀκτᾰπόδοιν toîn oktapódoin	τοῖς ὀκτᾰ́ποσῐ / ὀκτᾰ́ποσῐν toîs oktáposi(n)
Accusative	τὸν ὀκτᾰ́ποδᾰ tòn oktápoda	τὼ ὀκτᾰ́ποδε tṑ oktápode	τοὺς ὀκτᾰ́ποδᾰς toùs oktápodas
Vocative	ὀκτᾰ́πους oktápous	ὀκτᾰ́ποδε oktápode	ὀκτᾰ́ποδες oktápodes
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