How did the scientific community Latinize the ancient Greek term octopus?

The scientific Latin term octopus was derived from Ancient Greek ὀκτώπους (oktōpous). en.wikipedia.org en.wiktionary.org It is a compound form of ὀκτώ (oktō, «eight») and πούς (pous, «foot»). en.wikipedia.org

In ancient Greek, the octopus was called polypous or polupous (many-footed). www.grammarphobia.com This word was used by Pliny and Aristotle and later borrowed into Latin as polypus. www.grammarphobia.com

The scientist who is probably most responsible for standardizing the name in common usage was the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus, who used «octopus» in his work on taxonomy, Systema Naturae (10th ed., 1758). www.grammarphobia.com