March 18, 2015 at 5:05 PM. About time Peter Reckell & Stephen Nichols are coming back to DAYS to shake things up for the showâs 50th anniversary.
An octopus (/ËÉktÉpÊs/ or /ËÉktÉpÉs/ ; plural: octopuses, octopi, or octopodes; see below) is a cephalopod mollusc of the order Octopoda.It has two eyes and four pairs of arms and, like other cephalopods, it is bilaterally symmetric.An octopus has a beak, with its mouth at the center point of the arms.n octopus (/ËÉktÉpÊs/ or /ËÉktÉpÉs/ ; plural: octopuses, octopi, or octopodes; see below) is a cephalopod mollusc of the order Octopoda.
English words of Latin or Greek origin have rather unpredictable plurals, and each one usually depends on how well established that particular word is. It may also depend on whether the Latin or Greek form of the plural is either easily recognizable or pleasant to the speaker of English. Although it is often supposed that octopi is the âcorrectâ plural of octopus, and it has been in use for longer than the usual Anglicized plural octopuses, it in fact originates as an error. Octopus is not a simple Latin word of the second declension, but a Latinized form of the Greek word oktopous, and its âcorrectâ plural would logically be octopodes. Other words ending in -us show a very varied pattern. Like octopi, the plural hippopotami is now generally taken to be either funny or absurdly pedantic, and the usual plural is hippopotamuses. Common usage appears to indicate a slight preference for termini rather than terminuses, but syllabuses rather than syllabi.