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==Singular of ''-poda'' words==
I claimed in the article that the singular of ''gastropoda'' should be ''gastropus''. Alas, I am not so clear on this, now that I think about it. Greek adjectives in -πους -ποδος normally form their neuter in, of all things, -πουν. Therefore, the expected singular of γαστρόποδα would be γαστρόπουν. This in turn would be expected to yield Latin '''gastropun''' ''gastropodis, n.'' That's just freakin' absurd! So I looked for Latin -pūs words to see how they declined, and it looks like not a single one is attested in the neuter (so far as I can tell using only the online L&S at any rate). It seems logical to assume that they would be treated as one-termination adjectives, yielding the ''gastropus'' I used in the article, but I just wish I could find a darn attestation! --[[Usor:Iustinus|Iustinus]] 03:18, 7 Septembris 2006 (UTC)
:I thought that the compounds ending in the Greek -πους (-ποδος) may be forced into being one-termination adjectives ending in ''-pus'' when Latinized. The online L&S shows "strūthŏpūs, pŏdis, adj." ("sparrow-footed") and that made me think that the word is a one-termination adjective like "vĕtus, ĕris." I can't find
:(I should add that this is especially important because I was planning on doing [[cephalopoda]] next) --[[Usor:Iustinus|Iustinus]] 04:14, 7 Septembris 2006 (UTC)
:: No attestations on my part as to whether it's a one-termination or a two-termination form, but I suspect one could in the interim shove the question aside and use ''gastropus, -odis, comm.'' in the singular, leaving the obnoxious singular-less plural for addressing the class of ''mollusca gastropoda'' as a whole. —[[Usor:Mycēs|Myces Tiberinus]] 22:24, 7 Septembris 2006 (UTC)
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