marc

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

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mɑːk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /mɑɹk/
• Rhymes: -ɑːk
• Homophones: mark, Mark, marque

Etymology 1

From Middle French marc, from Old French marcher (“to trample”).

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, published 2008, page 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, published 1992, page 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.

Translations

refuse matter

• Bulgarian: джибри n (džibri)
• Catalan: brisa (ca) f
• French: marc (fr) m
• German: Trester (de) m
• Italian: sansa f, vinaccia (it) f
• Ottoman Turkish: جبره (cibre)
• Spanish: hollejo (es) m
• Turkish: cibre (tr)

Etymology 2

Noun

marc (plural marcs)

1. (historical, uncommon) Alternative form of mark: various half-pound units of mass, various European currencies.

References

• “marc”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Cram, MRCA, cram, macr-, mrca

Catalan

Etymology

Of Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *marką.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmark]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈmaɾk]
• Rhymes: -aɾk

Noun

marc m (plural marcs)

1. frame
2. (figurative) framework, setting

   Us aconsellarem per obtenir el resultat més favorable en el marc de la legalitat vigent.

   We will advise you so as to obtain the most favourable result in the existing legal framework.

3. (historical) marco, Spanish mark, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to about 230 g
4. (historical) mark, any of various other half-pound units of mass
5. (historical) mark, a former German currency

Derived terms

• emmarcar

Further reading

• “marc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “marc”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “marc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “marc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Deverbal of marcher (“to trample, walk over”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maʁ/

Noun

marc m (plural marcs)

1. pomace, marc
2. grounds (e.g. from coffee)

Derived terms

• marc de café

Further reading

• “marc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /mˠɑɾˠk/
• (Connacht, Ulster) 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

   Synonyms: capall, each, (literary) peall

Declension

Declension of marc

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

Related terms

• láir

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

Declension of marc

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

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Late Latin marca. Doublet of marg.

Noun

marc m (genitive singular mairc, nominative plural mairc)

1. (money) mark; shilling

Declension

Declension of marc

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

Synonyms

• marg

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.

Kashubian

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle High German marz

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmart͡s/
• Syllabification: marz

Noun

marc

1. March (month)

   Synonym: strëmiannik

Further reading

• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “marzec”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[1]

Old English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑrk/, [mɑrˠk]

Noun

marc n (nominative plural marc)

1. mark (as currency etc.)

Declension

Declension of marc (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	marc	marc
accusative	marc	marc
genitive	marces	marca
dative	marce	marcum

Descendants

• Middle English: mark
  • English: mark
  • Scots: mark, merk
• → Irish: marg

Old French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin marcus, itself borrowed from Frankish *mark, from Proto-Germanic *marką (“mark, sign, stamp”), from Proto-Indo-European *marǵ- (“edge, border”).

Noun

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

1. mark (small distinguishing feature)
2. mark (unit of currency)
   • c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Qui plus de çant mars d'arjant vaut

     Which is worth more than 100 marks of silver

Descendants

• Middle French: marc
  • French: marc

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (merc)
• merche on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

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

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	marc	marcL	maircL
Vocative	mairc	marcL	marcuH
Accusative	marcN	marcL	marcuH
Genitive	maircL	marc	marcN
Dative	marcL	marcaib	marcaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Synonyms

• ech

Derived terms

• marcach
• marcas
• marclann
• marcradh

Descendants

• Irish: marc
• Scottish Gaelic: marc

Mutation

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

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “marc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French marc.

Noun

marc n (uncountable)

1. pomace, marc

Declension

declension of marc (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) marc	marcul
genitive/dative	(unui) marc	marcului
vocative	marcule

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

   Synonym: each

2. steed

Derived terms

• marcachd

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
marc	mharc
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Welsh

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ark

Noun

marc

1. Nasal mutation of barc.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
barc	farc	marc	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.