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Tales of Androgyny

A game about birds, bees, flowers and trees. · By Majalis

That plural in the description

A topic by Luchog created 25 days ago Views: 149 Replies: 1
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The description says "suspicious number of phallus(es? odes?)".  According to Wiktionary, phallus is a lift from Latin, with Latin plural phalli; the Wiktionary page for phallus says "phallus (plural phalli or phalluses)".  The Latin does appear to derive from Greek φαλλός; while I don't know enough Greek to know how to pluralize that correctly, phallodes looks plausible to me.  So, yes, I'd say either of those would be fine, with phalli as a third option.

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Yeah, it's a similar situation to octopus -> octopodes/octopi/octopuses. There's the native English pluralization (octopuses), the Greek pluralization since "octa" and "pous" are Greek words meaning "eight" and "foot" respectively - and the Latin pluralization, since English borrowed octopus from Latin, not Greek, which is why octopi is the older pluralization in English. I've also heard it said that "polypus" (many feet) was the name for the creature in ancient Greek, but I've also seen it said that was the name for it in classical Latin as well, so who knows.