μάρσιππος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μᾰ́ρσῐπος (mắrsĭpos), μᾰ́ρσῠπος (mắrsŭpos), μᾰ́ρσῠππος (mắrsŭppos)

Etymology

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

Noun

μᾰ́ρσῐππος • (mắrsĭppos) 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 mắrsĭppos	τὼ μᾰρσῐ́ππω tṑ mărsĭ́ppō	οἱ μᾰ́ρσῐπποι hoi mắrsĭppoi
Genitive	τοῦ μᾰρσῐ́ππου toû mărsĭ́ppou	τοῖν μᾰρσῐ́πποιν toîn mărsĭ́ppoin	τῶν μᾰρσῐ́ππων tôn mărsĭ́ppōn
Dative	τῷ μᾰρσῐ́ππῳ tôi mărsĭ́ppōi	τοῖν μᾰρσῐ́πποιν toîn mărsĭ́ppoin	τοῖς μᾰρσῐ́πποις toîs mărsĭ́ppois
Accusative	τὸν μᾰ́ρσῐππον tòn mắrsĭppon	τὼ μᾰρσῐ́ππω tṑ mărsĭ́ppō	τοὺς μᾰρσῐ́ππους toùs mărsĭ́ppous
Vocative	μᾰ́ρσῐππε mắrsĭppe	μᾰρσῐ́ππω mărsĭ́ppō	μᾰ́ρσῐπποι mắrsĭppoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• μᾰρσῐ́ππῐον (mărsĭ́ppĭon)

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)