polypus

== English == === Etymology === From Latin polypus, from Ancient Greek πολύπους (polúpous). Doublet of polyp. === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɑlɪpəs/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɒlɪpəs/ Hyphenation: pol‧y‧pus === Noun === polypus (plural polypi or polypuses) A medical phenomenon. (medicine) A polyp. [from 14th c.] (hematology, pathology) A cardiac thrombus usually found post-mortem. [from 17th c.] An aquatic creature. (obsolete) A tentacled cephalopod, such as an octopus, squid, or cuttlefish. [16th–19th c.] (now rare) Any of various simple aquatic invertebrates having mouths surrounded by tentacles, including hydrozoa and anthozoa; including the sessile life stages of organisms whose corresponding free-swimming stage is the medusa. [from 18th c.] == Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek πολύπους (polúpous) (or from Doric Ancient Greek πώλυπος (pṓlupos) for the variant with long ō). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpɔ.ly.puːs] or (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpoː.ly.pʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpɔː.li.pus] === Noun === pō̆lypus m (genitive pō̆lypī); second declension octopus cuttlefish nasal tumor ==== Usage notes ==== A variant with long ō 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. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension 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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “polypus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.