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« Reply #25 on: December 15, 2011, 11:29:40 AM »
Platypus comes from english, octopus comes from greek. IIRC, Platypus has nothing to do with feet...unless platy means webbed?
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« Reply #26 on: December 15, 2011, 11:40:05 AM »
Quote from: I'm spinning a Platypus, get out of my way on December 15, 2011, 11:29:40 AM
Platypus comes from english, octopus comes from greek. IIRC, Platypus has nothing to do with feet...unless platy means webbed?

It doesn't matter where the word comes from in English.
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« Reply #27 on: December 15, 2011, 02:16:57 PM »

Latin, rather ?
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« Reply #28 on: December 15, 2011, 05:05:40 PM »

Both actually. 'Octo' is Latin, for you'd have to write 'okta' (I suppose) to be true to the Greek. 'Pous' is solid Greek. Typical 19th century scientific meddling of the two when it comes to name a species.
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« Reply #29 on: December 16, 2011, 10:26:32 AM »
Ok, so the French wikipedia article makes it simple:
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And says that it comes from the Greek words 'platís' which means 'flat, large', and 'pois' (which would have given 'pus' in English) which means 'foot', then 'flat foot'.

The  French word is made of 'ornitho-rhynkos' which means kinda 'which has a bird beck', ornitho being used in most French words relative to birds, seems then that there is a 'continental school' more interested in the beck, and the Anglos seem to be more interested in his feet...
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« Reply #30 on: December 17, 2011, 07:12:17 AM »
Quote from: Benwah [why on Earth do I post something] Courseyay on December 16, 2011, 10:26:32 AM
Ok, so the French wikipedia article makes it simple:
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And says that it comes from the Greek words 'platís' which means 'flat, large', and 'pois' (which would have given 'pus' in English) which means 'foot', then 'flat foot'.

The  French word is made of 'ornitho-rhynkos' which means kinda 'which has a bird beck', ornitho being used in most French words relative to birds, seems then that there is a 'continental school' more interested in the beck, and the Anglos seem to be more interested in his feet...

So it basically means the same things as the German version. Wink Only those damn Anglos have to use a different name. Tongue

To be exact, the German name should have been "Vogelschnabeltier". Grin
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