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Originally Posted by Anthony
We can always coin a new word. 'Zooiped' is appealing to my bad Greek senses.
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I believe the combining form of zoon is just zoo-, without the i. It's "zoology," not "zooilogy." And -ped is Latin, from pes; the Greek would be -pod, from pous.
But it doesn't seem to me that "zoopod" or "theriopod" quite captures the concept. It's not just a question of having animal feet with a human body; if it were that, a faun would be a centauroid. It seems to me it's more a question of having a human torso sprouting out of an animal torso. That might be "diplosome," from diplo-, double, and soma, body.