@bpeoples: That’s almost correct! It’s actually an interesting story. “eight feet” is where the word ‘octopus’ comes from, but it doesn’t actually mean that. In Greek, they were called “octopodes” (singlular: octopod) which is literally octo = eight, pod = foot. When the Romans borrowed the word, they substituted the ending -pus instead of -pod because Latin nouns typically ended in -us, but “pus” doesn’t mean anything in Latin by itself. The Latin for foot would be “ped”. You might be wondering why Latin ‘ped’ and Greek ‘pod’ are so similar, and the reason is that both are derived from the same language many thousands of years ago, Proto-Indo-European.