The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromὀκτώ“eight”
- English todayoctapody
From octa- + -pody, from Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktṓ, “eight”) and πούς, ποδός (poús, podós, “foot”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekὀκτώ all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.