eş: octopus, poulpe, tortue, speakerphone, poste téléphonique à haut-parleur
köken: From Guernsey Norman pieuvre (introduced or popularised by Victor Hugo ca. 1866; cf. also Old Northern French puerve). Ultimately from Latin polypūs (via *pueleve, *puelve, *pueuve, *pieuve, with the same /w/ > /j/ dissimilation as in yeux), from Ancient Greek πολύπους (polúpous, “several feet”). Doublet of poulpe.
köken: Inherited from Latin polypus (“cuttlefish, polyp”) (compare Catalan polp, pop, French poulpe, Galician polbo, Italian polpo, Portuguese polvo), from a variant of Ancient Greek πολύπους (polúpous, literally “many footed”), from πολύς (polús, “many”) + πούς (poús, “foot”). Doublet of pólipo.
aile: aceptamos pulpo como animal de compañía, como un pulpo, como un pulpo en un garaje, la del pulpo, pulpería, pulpero, pulpo a la gallega, pulpo imitador, pulpo manta, pulpo mimo
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese polbo, from Latin polypus (“octopus”), from Ancient Greek πολύπους (polúpous). Doublet of pólipo. Cognate with Galician polbo, Spanish pulpo, Italian polpo, French poulpe, pieuvre.
köken: From ośmioro + -nica. Sense 3 is a semantic loan from Italian piovra, perhaps from the name of the Italian series La Piovra, which is about the Mafia.
köken: Attested c. 1650 as cracatiță. Of Slavic origin, cf. Bulgarian кракатица (krakatica, “cuttlefish”), Serbo-Croatian karakatnica (“octopus”), Ukrainian каракатиця (karakatycja, “cuttlefish”), Russian каракатица (karakatica, “cuttlefish”), Czech krakatice (“squid”). The form and early date make Bulgarian the likely source language; Ukrainian is also a possibility. The base concept is кракат…