ochtapas

Irish

ochtapas

Etymology

Borrowed from English octopus, from Ancient Greek ὀκτώπους (oktṓpous), with influence from the native word ocht (“eight”).

Noun

ochtapas m (genitive singular ochtapais, nominative plural ochtapais)

1. octopus

Declension

Declension of ochtapas (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative ochtapas ochtapais vocative a ochtapais a ochtapasa genitive ochtapais ochtapas dative ochtapas ochtapais forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-ochtapas na hochtapais genitive an ochtapais na n-ochtapas dative leis an ochtapas don ochtapas leis na hochtapais

Derived terms

• ochtapas adharcach (“horned octopus”)
• ochtapas beag (“lesser octopus”)
• ochtapas cluaseiteach (“dumbo octopus”)
• ochtapas coiteann (“common octopus”)
• ochtapas gormfháinneach (“blue-ringed octopus”)
• ochtapas muscach (“musky octopus”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of ochtapas

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ochtapas	n-ochtapas	hochtapas	t-ochtapas

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ochtapas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “octopus”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024