Marsupiumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

名詞

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.

関連する語

• marsupial
• marsupialization
• marsupialize

語源

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

発音

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

名詞

marsūpium n (genitive marsūpiī or marsūpī); second declension

1. pouch, purse
   • c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, 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)

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

派生語

• marsūpiālis

派生した語

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

参照

• “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