marsupium

Borrowed from Latin marsūpium, from Ancient Greek μαρσίππιον (marsíppion), diminutive of μάρσιππος (mársippos, “pouch”), perhaps of Oriental origin.

marsupium (plural marsupiums or marsupia)

1. The external pouch in which female marsupials rear and feed the young.
2. A brood pouch in some fishes, crustaceans and insects in the family Monophlebidae.

• marsupial
• marsupialization
• marsupialize

Borrowed from Latin marsūpium.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑrsupium/, [ˈmɑ̝rs̠uˌpium]
• Rhymes: -ium
• Syllabification^(key): mar‧su‧pi‧um
• Hyphenation^(key): mar‧su‧pi‧um

marsupium

1. (zoology) marsupium

• marsuppium

From Ancient Greek μαρσίππιον (marsíppion), diminutive of μάρσιππος (mársippos, “pouch”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [marˈsuː.pi.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [marˈsuː.pi.um]

marsūpium n (genitive marsūpiī or marsūpī); second declension

1. pouch, purse
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.1.14:

     sortem mitte nōbīscum, marsūpium ūnum sit omnium nostrum

     Cast in thy lot with us, let us all have one purse. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• → English: marsupium (learned)
• → Italian: marsupio (learned)
• → Portuguese: marsúpio (learned)
• → Spanish: marsupio (learned)

• “marsupium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• marsupium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “marsupium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “marsupium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin