marc

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See also març, Marc, and márc.

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Middle French marc.

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[edit] 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.
    • 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.

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[edit] Irish

[edit] Etymology 1

From Old Irish marc, from Proto-Celtic *marko- (horse) (compare Welsh march, Breton marc'h).

[edit] Noun

marc m.

  1. (archaic) horse
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First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative marc mairc
Vocative a mhairc a mharca
Genitive mairc marc
Dative marc mairc

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an marc na mairc
Genitive an mhairc na marc
Dative leis an marc

don mharc

leis na mairc
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[edit] Etymology 2

From English mark, from Old English mearc (marker, boundary)

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marc m.

  1. mark (stroke, tick, marking)

[edit] Etymology 3

From Late Latin marca.

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marc m.

  1. mark (money)
  2. shilling
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First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative marc marcanna
Vocative a mhairc a mharcanna
Genitive mairc marcanna
Dative marc marcanna

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an marc na marcanna
Genitive an mhairc na marcanna
Dative leis an marc

don mharc

leis na marcanna
[edit] Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
marc mharc unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

[edit] Old English

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Probably from Late Latin marca

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marc n.

  1. mark (as currency &c.)

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[edit] Old French

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Late Latin marca

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

  1. mark (unit of currency)

[edit] Old Irish

[edit] Etymology

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).

[edit] Noun

marc m.

  1. horse

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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)

  1. horse (literary)
  2. steed

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