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Re: monotremes and multituberculates
Dinogeorge wrote:
>>I'd say the Latin plural of platypus would be platypodes, or something >>like
>>that, but never "platypi." (Likewise "octopodes" rather than >>"octopi.')
He would say wrong, I believe, since the options for plural Latin
endings are: -i, -ae, -a. I failed to find my copy of Cassell's
Latin-English dictionary, however, in order to be authoritative on this
matter--but this seems to be a confusion of Latin with Greek endings.
George Lindsay