The corpus record

ὀκτώ-πους

oktopous

eight feet long

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Where it lives

Meno 10 · 10.22/10k

What it meant

ὀκτώ-πους · oktō-pous — LSJ

= ὀκτάπους, as Subst., = σκορπίος, -πουν ἀνεγείρεις Cratin. 77 : acc. pl. [ὀκ]τώπους (dub. sens.) prob. in PCair.Zen. 510 (iii B. C.).

II eight feet long, of eight square feet

eight feet long, IG 1(2).313.90 ; of eight square feet, χωρίον Pl. Men. 82e, 83a.

In the wild

ὀκτώπουν · oktōpoun Plato, Meno 82
ὀκτώπουν · oktōpoun Plato, Meno 83
ὀκτώπουν · oktōpoun Plato, Meno 83
ὀκτώπουν · oktōpoun Plato, Meno 83
ὀκτώπουν · oktōpoun Plato, Meno 83
ὀκτώποδος · oktōpodos Plato, Meno 83

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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