polypus

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

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑlɪpəs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒlɪpəs/
• Hyphenation: pol‧y‧pus

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.

From Ancient Greek πολύπους (polúpous) (or from Doric Ancient Greek πώλυπος (pṓlupos) for the variant with long ō).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.ly.pus/, [ˈpɔlʲʏpʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.li.pus/, [ˈpɔːlipus]

or

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpoː.ly.pus/, [ˈpoːlʲʏpʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.li.pus/, [ˈpɔːlipus]

pō̆lypus m (genitive pō̆lypī); second declension

1. octopus
2. cuttlefish
3. nasal tumor

• 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.

Second-declension noun.

• “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 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