Im_a_Turtle Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 (edited) As the title asks. A group of Solaris and a single Solaris sounds wierd to me. Just like saying 1 Octopus and a group of Octopii. Edited November 15, 2018 by Im_a_Turtle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamma745 Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 To me, Solari sounds like what you call a member/citizen of Solaris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Im_a_Turtle Posted November 16, 2018 Author Share Posted November 16, 2018 The Solaris United sound like it'd be a nice community to be apart of 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rapt0rman Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 (edited) Incidentally the plural of octopus is actually octopodes, as it's of Greek origin and not Latin. Edited November 16, 2018 by rapt0rman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marelooke Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 (edited) 4 hours ago, rapt0rman said: Incidentally the plural of octopus is actually octopodes, as it's of Greek origin and not Latin. Isn't it also just "octopus" in Latin? I mean, there's polypus, but I think octopus also works. The Romans nabbed a lot of words from the languages of the countries they interacted with (like every other culture before and after them) And most "scientific Latin" is just Latinized Greek (the correct Greek for "octopus" would be "octopous" afaiu) Edited November 16, 2018 by marelooke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rapt0rman Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 (edited) 3 hours ago, marelooke said: Isn't it also just "octopus" in Latin? I mean, there's polypus, but I think octopus also works. The Romans nabbed a lot of words from the languages of the countries they interacted with (like every other culture before and after them) And most "scientific Latin" is just Latinized Greek (the correct Greek for "octopus" would be "octopous" afaiu) "Oktopous" but yeah. The thing is, in greek "pous" means foot, and isn't actually related to the Latin nominative suffix "-us" (in Latin, foot would be "pes" with an "-es") Even in Latin, I'm finding that while for instance "polypus" is accepted as both second declension "polypi" or third declension "polypodes", I'm still only finding instances of third declension "octopodes" (side note dunno if it's directly related, "polyp" became a word on its own, while "octop" never did) Honestly these days even "octopuses" is a more accepted plural then octopi, because then it at least follows modern English conventions. Edited November 16, 2018 by rapt0rman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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