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marsuppium

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Searchable Lemmata: marsuppium (L).
Alternate Forms: marcipium, marsippa, marsupia, marsupium, mercipium.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Accessory; pouch, purse or wallet; a moneypurse.(ante 709 - ante 1500)
1. nec tamen eximio virtutum munere dites / auri fallentis gestant marsuppia farsa Poetic. [DMLBS ALDH. (VirgV 1092) ante 709]
2. Marsupium ł marsippa seod. [DOE AntGl 4 (Kindschi) (0879 (879))]
3. ego emo cutes et pelles ... et facio ex eis ... peras et marsupia [AS: fætelsas] Gloss. [DMLBS ÆLF. (Coll. 97) ante 1010]
4. proprium ... est ... burgensium ferre marcipia (ME: purs] seu bursas Ecclesiastic/Regula. [DMLBS AncrR (55) ante 1350]
5. Manteres: a selke þred ... Manuparium: gausepe ... Marcipium: a pautenere or a pouche Gloss. [MED *Medulla ((Stnh A.1.10) 40a/a) ante 1425]
6. hoc mercipium, a pawtnere Gloss. [DMLBS WW (mercipium) 1400/1499]
c.f.: pautener
L.
Sex: N/A    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Classical Latin, < Greek μαρσίππιον 'little bag'.
WF: Borrowed into the British Isles
Etym Cog:
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