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ὀκτάπους
ὀκτάπους
See also: οκτάπους
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ὀκτώπους (oktṓpous)
Adjective
ὀκτᾰ́πους • (oktápous) m, f (neuter ὀκτᾰ́πουν); third declension
- eight-footed
- Batrachomyomachia 298
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ὀκτάποδες, δικάρηνοι, ἀχειρέες, οἱ δὲ καλεῦνται καρκίνοι
- They had eight legs, two heads, and had no hands, and are called crabs.
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ὀκτάποδες, δικάρηνοι, ἀχειρέες, οἱ δὲ καλεῦνται καρκίνοι
- Palatine Anthology 6.196
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Inflection
Declension of ὀκτᾰ́πους; ὀκτᾰ́πουν
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | |||||||
| Nominative | ὀκτᾰ́πους | ὀκτᾰ́πουν | ὀκτᾰ́ποδε | ὀκτᾰ́ποδε | ὀκτᾰ́ποδες | ὀκτᾰ́ποδᾰ | |||||||
| Genitive | ὀκτᾰ́ποδος | ὀκτᾰ́ποδος | ὀκτᾰπόδοιν | ὀκτᾰπόδοιν | ὀκτᾰπόδων | ὀκτᾰπόδων | |||||||
| Dative | ὀκτᾰ́ποδῐ | ὀκτᾰ́ποδῐ | ὀκτᾰπόδοιν | ὀκτᾰπόδοιν | ὀκτᾰ́ποσῐ | ὀκτᾰ́ποσῐ | |||||||
| Accusative | ὀκτᾰ́ποδᾰ | ὀκτᾰ́πουν | ὀκτᾰ́ποδε | ὀκτᾰ́ποδε | ὀκτᾰ́ποδᾰς | ὀκτᾰ́ποδᾰ | |||||||
| Vocative | ὀκτᾰ́πους | ὀκτᾰ́πουν | ὀκτᾰ́ποδε | ὀκτᾰ́ποδε | ὀκτᾰ́ποδες | ὀκτᾰ́ποδᾰ | |||||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | ||||||||||
| ὀκτᾰπόδως | - | - | |||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Noun
ὀκτᾰ́πους • (oktápous) m (genitive ὀκτᾰ́ποδος)
- the common octopus, Octopus vulgaris
- (Scythian) a person who possessed two oxen and a cart
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ ὀκτᾰ́πους | τὼ ὀκτᾰ́ποδε | οἱ ὀκτᾰ́ποδες | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ὀκτᾰ́ποδος | τοῖν ὀκτᾰπόδοιν | τῶν ὀκτᾰπόδων | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ὀκτᾰ́ποδῐ | τοῖν ὀκτᾰπόδοιν | τοῖς ὀκτᾰ́ποσῐ | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν ὀκτᾰ́ποδᾰ | τὼ ὀκτᾰ́ποδε | τοὺς ὀκτᾰ́ποδᾰς | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ὀκτᾰ́πους | ὀκτᾰ́ποδε | ὀκτᾰ́ποδες | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Related terms
- ὀκτᾰπόδης (oktapódēs)
Descendants
- English: octopus
References
- ὀκτάπους in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὀκτάπους in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- «ὀκτάπους» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- «ὀκτάπους» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften