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🐙 Octopus is Octopus 🐙 (mander.xyz)

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[–] LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 6 months ago (4 children)

Not really. Depending on the noun, the plural may be -us (called u-declination) instead of -i (called o-declination)

Example: modus is also modus in plural.

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

Octopus is a word of Greek origin. Nothing to do with Latin rules.

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[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 6 months ago

Octopus is an English word so it is perfectly correct to pluralise it as octopuses. To use octopi is definitely wrong (it's the wrong foreign pluralisation), octopodes is using an uncommon foreign pluralisation so it's not wrong, just non standard

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[–] LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

Yeah that part is correct but the first part of the sentence of level 3 is not :)

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 point 6 months ago

Ah, so you really have an issue with level 2.

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