and that octopi is misconceived and octopodes pedantic. Octopi derives from the mistaken notion that octopus is Latin . It is not. It is (Latinized) Greek , from oktopous (@ºÄÎÀ¿ÅÂ), gender masculine, whose plural is oktopodes (@ºÄÎÀ¿´µÂ). If the word were Latin, it would be octopes ('eight-foot') and the plural octopedes