polypus

From Latin polypūs, from Ancient Greek πολύπους (polúpous)

polypus (plural polypi or polypuses)

1. 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).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.ly.pus/, [ˈpɔ.lʏ.pʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.li.pus/, [ˈpoː.li.pus]

polypus m (genitive polypī); second declension
polypūs m (genitive polypodos); third declension

1. octopus
2. cuttlefish
3. nasal tumor

Second declension.

Third declension.

• 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, 1883–1887)
• polypus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette