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

πολύπους• (polúpous) m orf (neuterπολύπουν);third declension

1. many-footed

• → Latin:polypus

πολύπους• (polúpous) m (genitiveπολύποδος);third declension

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

     δεινοὶ κατὰ κοιλίαν εἰσὶν οἱπολύποδες

     deinoì katà koilían eisìn hoipolúpodes

     (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1997,Aelian, translated by Nigel G. Wilson,Historical Miscellany (Loeb Classical Library 486)‎^[2], Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press:

     Δεινοὶ κατὰ κοιλίαν εἰσὶν οἱπολύποδες

     Deinoì katà koilían eisìn hoipolúpodes

     Octopuses have remarkable stomachs

• → Latin:polypus

• “πολύπους”, inLiddell & Scott (1940)A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πολύπους”, inLiddell & Scott (1889)An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πολύπους inBailly, Anatole (1935)Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “polyp”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
• James Morwood, John Taylor (Editors),The Pocket Oxford Classical Greek Dictionary, New York: Oxford University Press→ISBN, page 265, 2002

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