marc

See also: marc', març, Març, Marc, and márc.

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle French marc.

Noun

marc (usually uncountable, plural marcs)

  1. The refuse matter that remains after fruit, particularly grapes, has been pressed.
  2. An alcoholic spirit distilled from the marc of grapes.
    • 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society 2008, p. 298:
      There were a few men in the café sitting with coffee and glasses of kirsch or marc on the tables.
    • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 60:
      The fire was restoked and the army of wine-bottles gave way to a smaller phalanx of brandies, Armagnacs and Marcs, to offset the large bowls of coffee from which rose plumes of fragrance.

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Noun

marc (plural marcs)

  1. (obsolete) A weight of various commodities, especially of gold and silver, used in different European countries. In France and Holland it was equal to eight ounces.
  2. (obsolete) A coin formerly current in England and Scotland, equal to thirteen shillings and four pence.
  3. (obsolete) A German coin and money of account; the mark.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for marc in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Catalan

Pronunciation

Noun

marc m (plural marcs)

  1. frame
  2. mark
  3. mark (old German currency)

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mˠaɾˠk/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish marc, from Proto-Celtic *markos (“horse”). Cognate with Welsh march, Breton marc’h, and Old English mearh (“horse”).

Noun

marc m (genitive singular mairc, nominative plural mairc)

  1. (archaic) horse
Declension
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English mark, from Old English mearc (“marker, boundary”).

Noun

marc m (genitive singular mairc, nominative plural marcanna)

  1. target, goal
  2. mark (stroke, tick, marking)
Declension

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Late Latin marca.

Noun

marc m (genitive singular mairc, nominative plural mairc)

  1. (money) mark; shilling
Declension
Synonyms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
marc mharc not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *marką (“mark, stamp”), possibly via Old Norse mark, mǫrk.

Noun

marc n (nominative plural marc)

  1. mark (as currency etc.)

Declension

Descendants

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *mark, *marka, from Proto-Germanic *marką (“mark, sign, stamp”), from Proto-Indo-European *marǵ- (“edge, border”).

Noun

marc m (oblique plural mars, nominative singular mars, nominative plural marc)

  1. mark (small distinguishing feature)
  2. mark (unit of currency)

Descendants

References

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *markos (“horse”). Cognate with Welsh march, Breton marc’h, and beyond Celtic with Old English mearh (“horse”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mark/

Noun

marc m (genitive mairc, nominative plural mairc)

  1. horse
    • c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, Corm. Y 851
      marc .i. each
      horse, that is, "horse"

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
marc
also mmarc after a proclitic		 marc
pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/		 marc
also mmarc after a proclitic
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • “marc” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish marc, from Proto-Celtic *markos (“horse”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /marxk/

Noun

marc m (genitive singular mairc, plural marcan)

  1. (literary) horse
  2. steed

Synonyms

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