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μάρσιππος

marsippos

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Where it lives

Genesis 17 · 5.66/10k
Michaeas 1 · 4.39/10k
Deuteronomium 1 · 0.45/10k

What it meant

1. μάρσιππος · marsippos — Beekes

μάρσιππος [m.] “bag, pouch (for money), purse’ (X., LXX, Hell. pap.). VAR Codd. also -ἰπος, -vm(m)oc. DER Diminutive μαρσίππιον, -imtov, -ὑπίστλιον (Ηρ. LXX, Hell. pap.). *ETYM The word is most probably Pre-Greek because of its variants in πί(π) and 1/v. Borrowed into Lat. marsup(p)ium, -sip(p)-; see WH s.v. — [Beekes, s.v. μάρσιππος, p. 959]

2. μάρσιππος · marsippos — Frisk

μάρσιππος (codd. auch -ınos, -υπ{π)})ος) m. “Geldsack, Börse’ (X., LXX, hell. Pap. u.a.); Demin. μαρσίππιον (-inıov, -ὑπ(πλιον; Hp., LXX, hell. Pap.). — Fremdwort unbekannter Herkunft. Lat. LW marsup(p )ium, -sip(p)-; 5. W.-Hofmann 4 s.v., wo auch Lit. — [Frisk, s.v. μάρσιππος, p. 1150]

3. μάρσιππος · marsippos — LSJ

bag, pouch, poultice

bag, pouch, X. An. 4.3.11, PPetr. 3p.257 (iii B.C.), PSI 4.427.1, al. (iii B.C.), PCair.Zen. 69.14 (iii B.C.), LXX Ge. 42.27, al., f.l. in D.S. 20.41; poultice, Sor. 2.10, 59; μ. λινοῦς, = κρησέρα, Gal. 19.115:—Dim. μαρσίππιον, τό, Hp. Acut. 21, Apollod.Car. 13, PCair.Zen. 10.27, al. (iii B.C.), PPetr. 3p.145 (iii B.C.), LXX Pr. 1.14. [-ιππος, -ίππιον, Pap. Il.cc. and usu. in LXX; -ιπος, -ίπιον freq. v.l. in later codd., cf. Gloss.; -είπειον UPZ 77ii 13 (ii B.C., illiterate); -υπος, -ύπιον, Glos

In the wild

μαρσίππῳ · marsippōi Septuaginta, Deuteronomium 25
μαρσίππου · marsippou Septuaginta, Genesis 42
μαρσίππῳ · marsippōi Septuaginta, Genesis 42
μάρσιππον · marsippon Septuaginta, Genesis 42
μαρσίπποις · marsippois Septuaginta, Genesis 43
μαρσίπποις · marsippois Septuaginta, Genesis 43

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Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. μάρσιππος (scan p. 959; entry #3933).
Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. μάρσιππος (scan p. 1150; entry #3744).

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