different between polyp vs polypus

English

Etymology

From Latin polypus (“a polyp, a polypus in the nose”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (polúpous), from ????? (polús, “many”) + ???? (poús, “foot”). Doublet of polypus.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?l?p/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?l?p/
• Rhymes: -?l?p
• Hyphenation: pol?yp

Noun

polyp (plural polyps)

1. (medicine) an abnormal growth protruding from a mucous membrane
2. (zoology) a cylindrical coelenterate, such as the hydra, having a mouth surrounded with tentacles

Derived terms

• polypoid

Related terms

• polypian
• polyposis

Translations

Further reading

• polyp in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• polyp in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• polyp at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• loppy

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pol?p]

Noun

polyp m

1. (biology) polyp
2. (medicine) polyp

Derived terms

• polypí

Further reading

• polyp in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• polyp in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

English

Etymology

From Latin polypus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (polúpous). Doublet of polyp.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?l?p?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?l?p?s/
• Hyphenation: pol?y?pus

Noun

polypus (plural polypi or polypuses)

1. (hematology, pathology) A cardiac thrombus usually found post-mortem.
   • 1898, Werner's magazine (volume 20)

     The nasal passages should be carefully examined for symptoms of stegnosis, enlargement of the turbinated bones, polypi, etc.

2. (archaic) An octopus.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (polúpous) (or from Doric Ancient Greek ??????? (p?lupos) for the variant with long ?).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?po.ly.pus/, [?p?l?p?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?po.li.pus/, [?p??lipus]

or

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?po?.ly.pus/, [?po?l?p?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?po.li.pus/, [?p??lipus]

Noun

p??lypus m (genitive p??lyp?); second declension

1. octopus
2. cuttlefish
3. nasal tumor

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Or, alternatively, with a long ?:Second-declension noun.

Usage notes

• A variant with long ? is found occasionally in Ovid and Horace, perhaps to make the meter scan more easily; this variant has its origin in the Doric Greek form of the noun.

Descendants

References

• polypus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• polypus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• polypus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• polypus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette