Putto Who", infants of the species Weeping Angels appear as putti. In the 1st-person shooter "Team Fortress 2", the "Meet the Pyro" video has the BLU Team appear as putti in Pyroland (The Pyro's vision). In the 2003 video game "Drakengard", a group of malevolent god-like figures known as the Watchers appear as putti. The historiography of this subject matter is very short. Many art historians have commented on the importance of the putto in art, but few have undertaken a major study. One useful scholarly examination is Charles Dempsey's "Inventing the Renaissance Putto". Putto A putto (; plural putti )
Plural form of words ending in -us etymologically Greek despite its Latinized ending, and so pluralizing it as if it were Latin (i.e. as "platypi") is ill-considered. As with "octopus", importing Greek morphology into English would have "platypodes" as the plural, but in practice this form is hardly attested outside of discussions about pluralization. In scientific contexts, biologists often use "platypus" as both the singular and plural form of the word, in the tradition of "sheep" or "fish", but laypersons and scientists alike often use the simple English plural "platypuses". Different dictionaries make different recommendations. As a word in Botanical Latin (as distinct from Classical Latin), "cactus"