πολύπους

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πολύς (polús, “many”) + πούς (poús, “foot”).

Adjective

πολύπους • (polúpous)

1. many-footed

Descendants

• Latin: polypus

References

• “πολύπους”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πολύπους”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πολύπους in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “polyp”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.