μάρσιππος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μᾰ́ρσῐπος (mársipos), μᾰ́ρσῠπος (mársupos), μᾰ́ρσῠππος (mársuppos)

Etymology

The word is most probably Pre-Greek, because of its variants.

Noun

μᾰ́ρσῐππος • (mársippos) m (genitive μᾰρσῐ́ππου); second declension

1. bag, pouch

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ μᾰ́ρσῐππος; τοῦ μᾰρσῐ́ππου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μᾰ́ρσῐππος ho mársippos	τὼ μᾰρσῐ́ππω tṑ marsíppō	οἱ μᾰ́ρσῐπποι hoi mársippoi
Genitive	τοῦ μᾰρσῐ́ππου toû marsíppou	τοῖν μᾰρσῐ́πποιν toîn marsíppoin	τῶν μᾰρσῐ́ππων tôn marsíppōn
Dative	τῷ μᾰρσῐ́ππῳ tôi marsíppōi	τοῖν μᾰρσῐ́πποιν toîn marsíppoin	τοῖς μᾰρσῐ́πποις toîs marsíppois
Accusative	τὸν μᾰ́ρσῐππον tòn mársippon	τὼ μᾰρσῐ́ππω tṑ marsíppō	τοὺς μᾰρσῐ́ππους toùs marsíppous
Vocative	μᾰ́ρσῐππε mársippe	μᾰρσῐ́ππω marsíppō	μᾰ́ρσῐπποι mársippoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• μᾰρσῐ́ππῐον (marsíppion)

Descendants

• Greek: μάρσιπος (mársipos)
• → Latin: marsupium
  • → English: marsupium
  • → Italian: marsupio

Further reading

• “μάρσιππος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μάρσιππος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Greek

Noun

μάρσιππος • (mársippos) m (plural μάρσιπποι)

1. Alternative form of μάρσιπος (mársipos)

Declension

Declension of μάρσιππος

	singular	plural
nominative	μάρσιππος (mársippos)	μάρσιπποι (mársippoi)
genitive	μαρσίππου (marsíppou)	μαρσίππων (marsíppon)
accusative	μάρσιππο (mársippo)	μαρσίππους (marsíppous)
vocative	μάρσιππε (mársippe)	μάρσιπποι (mársippoi)