Re: monotremes and multituberculates (was reply to reply...Cynodont)

[NJPharris@aol.com]

In a message dated 97-06-17 20:50:44 EDT, Dinogeorge writes:

> << platypi >>
>  
>  I'd say the Latin plural of platypus would be platypodes, or something
like 
> that, but never "platypi." (Likewise "octopodes" rather than "octopi.')

Right.  If you didn't already know, the root in question here is New Latin
"pus" (long u), from Greek "pous" [foot], plural "podes"--not the Latin
masculine o-stem ending "-us" (short u, of which the plural is "-i").

--Nick "Classics major though dinosaurologist at heart" Pharris