Μασσαλία

Probably from a pre-Latin language of Italy, perhaps an unknown “Massaliot” language or Ancient Ligurian mas (“spring”).

Μασσᾰλίᾱ • (Massălíā) f (genitive Μασσᾰλίᾱς); first declension

1. Massalia (ancient Greek city and colony in modern southern France; modern Marseille)

• Μασσαλιώτης (Massaliṓtēs)

• Greek: Μασσαλία (Massalía)
• → English: Massalia
• → Latin: Massilia
  • French: Marseille
    • → English: Marseille, Marseilles
  • Italian: Marsiglia
  • Occitan: Marselha
  • Portuguese: Marselha
  • Spanish: Marsella

• “Μασσαλία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Μασσαλία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,016

• Μαρσίλια (Marsília)
• Μαρσέιγ (Marséig)

From Ancient Greek Μασσαλία (Massalía), perhaps from Ancient Ligurian mas (“spring”).

• IPA^(key): /ma.saˈli.a/
• Hyphenation: Μα‧σσα‧λί‧α

Μασσαλία • (Massalía) f

1. Marseille (the capital city of Bouches-du-Rhône department, France; the capital city of the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur)

• Μασσαλιώτιδα f (Massaliótida, “female from Marseille, the Marseillaise”)
• Μασσαλιώτης m (Massaliótis, “male from Marseille”)
• μασσαλιώτικος (massaliótikos, adjective)
• σαπούνι Μασσαλίας n (sapoúni Massalías, “Marseille soap”)

• Μαρσεγιέζα m (Marsegiéza, “female from Marseille”, colloquial)
• Μαρσεγιέζος m (Marsegiézos, “male from Marseille”, colloquial)

• Μασσαλία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el