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

[Bettyc <Bettyc@flyinggoat.com>]

NJPharris@aol.com wrote:
> >  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").


and for everyone hoping for a little vernacular-you can say "a bunch of
platypuses"
-- 
           Betty Cunningham  
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