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English

Etymology

From Powhatan aposoum (“white animal”), from Proto-Algonquian *wa·p-a??emwa (“white dog”); compare Ojibwe waabasim (“white dog”).

Sometimes falsely attributed to a Latin origin, as if from *oppossum; confer actual Latin possum (“I am able, I can”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??p?s?m/
• (US) enPR: ?-päs??m, IPA^(key): /??p?s?m/ or in abbreviated form like possum, as /?p?s?m/
• Hyphenation: o?pos?sum

Noun

opossum (plural opossums)

1. Any American marsupial of the family Didelphidae. The common species of the United States is Didelphis virginiana.

Synonyms

• possum (US)

Derived terms

• water opossum (Chironectes minimus), yapock
• opossum mouse (Cercartetus nanus)
• opossum rat (Rattus marmosurus)
• opossum shrimp (order Mysida)
• shrew opossum (family Caenolestidae)

Descendants

• ? Irish: apasam

Translations

References

Further reading

• opossum in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Didelphidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Didelphidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Corsican

Etymology

Borrowed from English opossum, from Powhatan aposoum (“white animal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o?pos?um/

Noun

opossum m (plural opossi)

1. opossum

References

• “opossum” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English opossum, from Powhatan aposoum (“white animal”), from Proto-Algonquian *wa·p-a??emwa (“white dog”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o??p?.s?m/
• Hyphenation: opos?sum

Noun

opossum m (plural opossums, diminutive opossumpje n)

1. opossum, marsupial of the family Didelphidae

   Synonym: buidelrat

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.p?.s?m/

Noun

opossum m (plural opossums)

1. opossum

Synonyms

• sarigue
• (Louisiana) rat de bois

Further reading

• “opossum” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????????? (phílandros, “loving men”), from ????? (philía, “love”) and ?????? (andrós), genitive case of ???? (an?r, “man”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f??lænd?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /f??lænd??/

Noun

philander (plural philanders)

1. A lover.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Congreve to this entry?)

2. A South American opossum, bare-tailed woolly opossum, Caluromys philander, formerly Didelphis philander.
3. An Australian bandicoot, greater bilby or bilby, Macrotis lagotis, formerly Perameles lagotis.

Translations

Further reading

• philander on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

philander (third-person singular simple present philanders, present participle philandering, simple past and past participle philandered)

1. (intransitive) To woo women; to play the male flirt.

   • You can't be philandering after her again.

Synonyms

• womanize, womanise

Derived terms

• philanderer, philandering

Translations