octopus

Etymology
From, from , from +.

Noun

 * 1)  Any of several marine molluscs of the family, having no internal or external protective shell or bone (unlike the nautilus, squid and cuttlefish) and eight arms each covered with suckers.
 * 2)  The flesh of these marine molluscs eaten as food.
 * 3)  An organization that has many powerful branches controlled from the centre.

Usage notes

 * The plural is a hypercorrection, coming from the mistaken notion that the  in  is a Latin second declension ending. The word is actually treated as a third declension noun in Latin. The plural  (Latin: ) follows the Ancient Greek plural, . The plural  is based on an incorrect attempt to pluralise the word based on an incorrect assumption of its origin, and is rare and widely considered to be nonstandard.
 * Sources differ on which plurals are acceptable: ' asserts that “the only acceptable plural in English is ”, while and other dictionaries accept  as a plural form. The ' lists, , and  (the order reflecting decreasing frequency of use), stating that the last form is rare. The online Oxford dictionary states that the standard plural is , that  is still occasionally used, and that  is incorrect.
 * The term (both  and  can be found as the plural) is taken from the taxonomic order  but has no classical equivalent, and is not necessarily synonymous (it can encompass any member of that order). The uncountable use of  is usually reserved for octopus flesh consumed for food ("He ate too much octopus last night.").

Translations

 * 'Are'are: kari
 * Adyghe: псылъэхъу
 * Afrikaans: seekat
 * Aklanon: kugita
 * Albanian:, , ledhone
 * Alutiiq: amikuq
 * Arabic: أُخْطُبُوط, أَخْطَبُوط
 * Egyptian Arabic: أَخْطَبُوط
 * Hijazi Arabic: أَخْطَبُوط
 * Moroccan Arabic: أَخْطَبُوط, روطالة, زايس
 * South Levantine Arabic: أَخْطَبُوط
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:, oktapod, səkkizayaq
 * Basque: olagarro
 * Belarusian: васьміно́г
 * Bengali:
 * Bislama: nawita
 * Breton: morgazh
 * Brunei Malay: sutung
 * Brunei Malay: sutung
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: kugita
 * Chechen: бархӀкогберг
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏓᏢᎢ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 八爪魚, 章魚
 * Hokkien: 章魚
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: kollell-lesa
 * Czech:
 * Danish: blæksprutte
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: seepia, tindikala, kaheksajalg
 * Faroese: áttermdur, áttaermdur høgguslokkur
 * Fijian: kuita
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German: ;  ;
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: πολύπους, ὀκτώπους
 * Haida: núugyaa
 * Haitian Creole: pyèv
 * Halkomelem: qéymeqw'
 * Hawaiian: heʻe
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ऑक्टोपस, अष्टबाहु
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Ilocano: kurita
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: octopode
 * Inupiaq: nipitchaq
 * Iranun: kurita'
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Javanese: gurita
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: сегізаяқ
 * Khmer: អដ្ឋករ, រពីងសមុទ្រ
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, ,
 * Kyrgyz: сегиз бут
 * Lao: ປາມຶກ
 * Latin: polypūs, octopūs
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: aštuonkojis
 * Macedonian: октопо́д
 * Malagasy: ,
 * Malay: gurita,, sotong gurita, doyak
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: qarnit
 * Mansaka: kogita
 * Manx: oghtapus, hoght-choshagh
 * Maori: wheke
 * Maranao: kogita
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Nauruan:
 * Navajo: łóóʼ bigaan tseebíí
 * Neapolitan: purpo
 * Nepali:
 * Nootka: tiiłuup
 * Norman: pieuvre, pövr
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: blekksprut,
 * Nynorsk: blekksprut, akkar
 * Occitan:
 * Odia: ଅକ୍ଟୋପସ, ଅଷ୍ଟବାହୁ, କୁମୁଟିମୁଣା
 * Orok: askuttu
 * Ossetian: асткъахыг
 * Ottoman Turkish: آختاپود
 * Paicî: éa
 * Palauan: bukitang, bokitang
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Quechua: pulpu
 * Rapa Nui: hehe
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Saanich: sqim'ək'ʷ
 * Samoan: fe'e
 * Santali: ᱚᱠᱴᱚᱯᱚᱥ
 * Sardinian: pruppu
 * Scottish Gaelic: ochd-chasach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: хо̀ботница, осмоног
 * Roman:, osmonog
 * Seri: hapaj
 * Sicilian:
 * Sinhalese: බූවල්ලා
 * Slovak:, osmonoh
 * Slovene:
 * Somali:
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese: gurita
 * Swahili:, pweza mkubwa
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pugita, salabay
 * Tahitian: fee
 * Tajik: ҳаштпо
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu: ఆక్టోపస్
 * Thai: หมึกยักษ์
 * Tibetan: ཆུ་སྲིན་ལག་བརྒྱད
 * Tok Pisin: urita
 * Tongan: feke
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: sekizaýak
 * Ukrainian: восьмині́г, спрут
 * Urdu: آکٹوپس, ہَشْت پا
 * Uyghur: سەككىز ئاياغ
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: loktop,
 * Waray-Waray: kugita
 * Welsh: octopws, nieidiol, wythgoes
 * Yiddish: אָקטאָפּוס
 * Zazaki: ,
 * Zulu: imbambela, ingwane

Verb

 * 1) To put (or attempt to put) one's fingers, hands or arms in many things or places at roughly the same time.
 * 2) To spread out in long arms or legs in many directions.
 * 3) To plug a large number of devices into a single electric outlet.
 * 4)  To grow in use vastly beyond what was originally intended.
 * 5) To hunt and catch octopuses.
 * 6) To behave like an octopus.
 * 1) To plug a large number of devices into a single electric outlet.
 * 2)  To grow in use vastly beyond what was originally intended.
 * 3) To hunt and catch octopuses.
 * 4) To behave like an octopus.
 * 1)  To grow in use vastly beyond what was originally intended.
 * 2) To hunt and catch octopuses.
 * 3) To behave like an octopus.
 * 1)  To grow in use vastly beyond what was originally intended.
 * 2) To hunt and catch octopuses.
 * 3) To behave like an octopus.
 * 1) To hunt and catch octopuses.
 * 2) To behave like an octopus.
 * 1) To hunt and catch octopuses.
 * 2) To behave like an octopus.
 * 1) To hunt and catch octopuses.
 * 2) To behave like an octopus.
 * 1) To behave like an octopus.
 * 1) To behave like an octopus.
 * 1) To behave like an octopus.

Etymology
From, from +.

Etymology
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