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Mes•sa•pic
(mə sā′pik, -sap′ik),USA pronunciation n.
- an Indo-European language that was spoken in what is now SE Italy and written with an alphabet derived from that of Greek.
- Latin Mesāp(ius) pertaining to Messāpia the Calabrian peninsula + -ic
- 1765–75