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octopus
English
Etymology
From Latin oct?p?s, from Ancient Greek ???????? (okt?pous), from ???? (okt?, “eight”) + ???? (poús, “foot”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??kt.?.p?s/, /??k.t?.p?s/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??kt.?.p?s/, /??k.t?.p?s/
Noun
octopus (plural octopuses or octopusses or octopi or octopodes or octopii) (see usage notes)
- Any of several marine molluscs of the family Octopodidae, having no internal or external protective shell or bone (unlike the nautilus, squid and cuttlefish) and eight arms each covered with suckers.
- (uncountable) The flesh of these marine molluscs eaten as food.
- An organization that has many powerful branches controlled from the centre.
Usage notes
- The plural octopi is hypercorrect, coming from the mistaken notion that the -us in oct?p?s is a Latin second declension ending. The word is actually treated as a third declension noun in Latin. The plural octopodes (Latin: oct?pod?s) follows the Ancient Greek plural, ????????? (okt?podes). The plural octopii is based on an incorrect attempt to pluralise the word based on an incorrect assumption of its origin, and is rare and widely considered to be nonstandard.
- Sources differ on which plurals are acceptable: Fowler's Modern English Usage asserts that “the only acceptable plural in English is octopuses”, while Merriam-Webster and other dictionaries accept octopi as a plural form. The Oxford English Dictionary lists octopuses, octopi, and octopodes (the order reflecting decreasing frequency of use), stating that the last form is rare. The online Oxford dictionary states that the standard plural is octopuses, that octopodes is still occasionally used, and that octopi is incorrect.
- The term octopod (both octopods and octopodes can be found as the plural) is taken from the taxonomic order Octopoda but has no classical equivalent, and is not necessarily synonymous (it can encompass any member of that order). The uncountable use of octopus is usually reserved for octopus flesh consumed for food ("He ate too much octopus last night.").
Synonyms
- polypus
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- ????
- calamari
- cuttlefish
- Kraken
- nautilus
- squid
Verb
octopus (third-person singular simple present octopusses or octopuses, present participle octopussing or octopusing, simple past and past participle octopussed or octopused)
- To put (or attempt to put) one's fingers, hands or arms in many things or places at roughly the same time.
- To spread out in long arms or legs in many directions.
- To plug a large number of devices into a single electric outlet.
- (by extension) To grow in use vastly beyond what was originally intended.
- To hunt and catch octopuses.
- To behave like an octopus.
Anagrams
- cop-outs, copouts, cops out
Dutch
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???????? (okt?pous), from ???? (okt?, “eight”) + ???? (poús, “foot”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: oc?to?pus
Noun
octopus m (plural octopussen, diminutive octopusje n)
- octopus
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???????? (okt?pous, “eight feet”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ok?to?.pu?s/, [?k?t?o?pu?s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ok?to.pus/, [?k?t???pus]
Noun
oct?p?s m (genitive oct?podis); third declension
- (New Latin) octopus
- 1825 — Willem de Haan, Monographiæ ammoniteorum et goniatiteorum specimen, page 10.
- Jam vero testa in hac familia sola universalis pars est, Octopodis tantum exceptis.
- Now truly a shell is a part universal in this single family, octopus the notable exception.
- Jam vero testa in hac familia sola universalis pars est, Octopodis tantum exceptis.
- 1825 — Willem de Haan, Monographiæ ammoniteorum et goniatiteorum specimen, page 10.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
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crayfish
English
Alternative forms
- crawfish; craifish (obsolete), crafish, crefish (obsolete); crevis, crevice, crevyssh (obsolete)
Etymology
Alteration (by folk etymology, influenced by fish) of Middle English crevis, from Old French crevice ("crayfish"; > Modern French: écrevisse), from Frankish *krebitja (“crayfish”), diminutive of Frankish *krebit (“crab”), from Proto-Germanic *krabitaz (“crab, cancer”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb?-, *gereb?- (“to scratch, crawl”). Akin to Old High German krebiz ("edible crustacean, crab"; > Modern German Krebs (“crab”)), Middle Low German kr?vet (“crab”), Dutch kreeft (“crayfish, lobster”), Old English crabba (“crab”). More at crab.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?e??f??/
Noun
crayfish (plural crayfishes or crayfish)
- Any of numerous freshwater decapod crustaceans in superfamilies Astacoidea and Parastacoidea, resembling the related lobster but usually much smaller.
- (New England, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota) A freshwater crustacean (family Cambaridae), sometimes used as an inexpensive seafood or as fish bait.
- (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) A rock lobster (family Palinuridae).
- (Singapore) The species Thenus orientalis of the slipper lobster family.
Usage notes
The term crayfish predominates in the region of New England and in New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. In much of the United States—in the South, especially in Louisiana and Texas; in the Midwest and in the West—crawfish predominates. In a belt stretching across Kentucky through Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, and Oklahoma, and in Oregon and northern California, the term crawdad predominates.
Synonyms
- (freshwater crustaceans): crawdad, crawldad, crawfish, crawlfish, mudbug, yabby (Australia)
Derived terms
- crayfish plague (Aphanomyces astaci)
Translations
Verb
crayfish (third-person singular simple present crayfishes, present participle crayfishing, simple past and past participle crayfished)
- to catch crayfish
- Alternative form of crawfish (to backpedal, desert, or withdraw)
Translations
See also
- lobster
- prawn
- shrimp
- yabby
References
Further reading
- crayfish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- crayfish at OneLook Dictionary Search
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