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marsūpĭum

marsūpĭum · n

a pouch, purse

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What it meant

marsūpĭum — Lewis & Short

marsūpĭum (-suppium), ii, n., = marsu/pion,

I a pouch, purse (ante- and postclass.): curam marsupii habere, Varr. ap. Non. 142, 1: nummi aurei in marsupio, Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 26: quom inspicio marsupium, id. Men. 2, 1, 29: exenterare, to empty, id. Ep. 2, 2, 3; Prud. Psych. 600; Alcim. 6, 311.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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