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7-letter words (1 found)

POLYPUS,

6-letter words (4 found)

POLYPS,POULPS,SLOPPY,SUPPLY,

5-letter words (15 found)

LOPPY,LOUPS,LOUSY,PLOPS,PLOYS,POLYP,POLYS,POPSY,POULP,PSYOP,PULPS,PULPY,SLOPY,SOPPY,SOUPY,

4-letter words (24 found)

LOPS,LOUP,LOUS,LOYS,OPUS,OUPS,PLOP,PLOY,PLUS,POLS,POLY,POPS,POSY,PULP,PULS,PULY,PUPS,PUYS,SLOP,SOUL,SOUP,UPSY,YOUS,YUPS,

3-letter words (29 found)

LOP,LOS,LOU,LOY,OPS,OUP,OUS,OYS,PLU,PLY,POL,POP,POS,PUL,PUP,PUS,PUY,SLY,SOL,SOP,SOU,SOY,SPY,SUP,UPO,UPS,YOU,YUP,YUS,

2-letter words (11 found)

LO,OP,OS,OU,OY,PO,SO,UP,US,YO,YU,

You can make 84 words from polypus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of polypus

polypus

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

polypus (plural polypi or polypuses)

  1. A medical phenomenon.
    1. (medicine) A polyp. [from 14th c.]
    2. (hematology, pathology) A cardiac thrombus usually found post-mortem. [from 17th c.]
  2. An aquatic creature.
    1. (obsolete) A tentacled cephalopod, such as an octopus, squid, or cuttlefish. [16th–19th c.]
    2. (now rare) Any of various simple aquatic invertebrates having mouths surrounded by tentacles, including hydrozoa and anthozoa. [from 18th c.]

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pō̆lypus m (genitive pō̆lypī); second declension

  1. octopus
  2. cuttlefish
  3. nasal tumor

Usage notes

  • 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.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

References

  • “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.

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