marsopa

Borrowed from Old French marsoupe, from a West Germanic source.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [mərˈso.pə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [maɾˈso.pa]

marsopa f (plural marsopes)

1. porpoise

• “marsopa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “marsopa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “marsopa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Borrowed from French and Old French marsoupe, probably of Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *marisuppa (“porpoise”), from Latin mare (“sea”) + Proto-Germanic *supô (“to drink, sip”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /maɾˈsopa/ [maɾˈso.pa]

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• Rhymes: -opa
• Syllabification: mar‧so‧pa

marsopa f (plural marsopas)

1. porpoise

• “marsopa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024