04-03-2008, 08:33 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Central MD, USA
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Originally Posted by wyndhy
at the risk of sounding pedantic, octopus is not latin, it’s greek, therefore there is no latin plural. the proper (if somewhat pretentious) plural is octopodes but octopi is totally acceptable as is octopuses. octopedes however, is just flat out wrong.
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-"pus" is in fact latin, borrowed from the original Greek.
-"pous" is the original Greek.
Therefore, latin, octopodes. The "pedes" came from the fact that I can't type, despite being able to spell. Case in point: that sentence I just typed required three backspaces to correct typos, and this one required two.
OF is of course, correct about the *english* plural of octopus.
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