marsupiumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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.um/, [märˈs̠uːpiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /marˈsu.pi.um/, [märˈsuːpium]

名詞

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)

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

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