marc
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[edit] English
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From Middle French marc.
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[edit] Noun
marc (usually uncountable; plural marcs)
- The refuse matter that remains after fruit, particularly grapes, has been pressed.
- An alcoholic spirit distilled from the marc of grapes.
- 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.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 60:
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[edit] Irish
[edit] Etymology 1
From Old Irish marc, from Proto-Celtic *marko- (“horse”) (compare Welsh march, Breton marc'h).
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marc m.
- (archaic) horse
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[edit] Etymology 2
From English mark, from Old English mearc (“marker, boundary”)
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marc m.
- mark (stroke, tick, marking)
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From Late Latin marca.
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marc m.
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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[edit] Old English
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Probably from Late Latin marca
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marc n.
- mark (as currency &c.)
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[edit] Old French
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marc m. (oblique plural mars, nominative singular mars, nominative plural marc)
- mark (unit of currency)
- circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
- Qui plus de çant mars d'arjant vaut
- Which is worth more than 100 marks of silver
- Qui plus de çant mars d'arjant vaut
- circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
[edit] Old Irish
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From Proto-Indo-European *marko- (“horse”). Cognate with Welsh march, Breton marc'h; also Proto-Germanic *marha-, which gives Old English mearh (English mare), Old High German mare (German Mähre), Old Norse merr, marr (Swedish märr).
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marc m.
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[edit] Scottish Gaelic
[edit] Etymology
From Old Irish marc, from Proto-Celtic *marko- (“horse”).
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marc m. (genitive mairc, plural marcan)
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- English terms derived from Middle French
- English nouns
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Irish nouns
- Irish archaic terms
- Irish terms derived from English
- Irish terms derived from Old English
- Irish terms derived from Late Latin
- ga:Money
- ga:Horses
- Old English terms derived from Late Latin
- Old English nouns
- Old English a-stem nouns
- Old French terms derived from Late Latin
- Old French nouns
- Old French masculine nouns
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Irish nouns
- sga:Horses
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Old Irish
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Scottish Gaelic nouns
- Scottish Gaelic literary terms
