marc

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑːk/
• IPA^(key): /mɑɹk/
• Homophones: mark, Mark, marque

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

• mark

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Cram, MRCA, cram, macr-, mrca

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Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Noun

marc m (plural marcs)

1. frame
2. mark
3. mark (old 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.

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French

Noun

marc m (plural marcs)

1. marc

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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

   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.

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.

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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

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Old French

Etymology

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)
   • 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

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

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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

• 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 /β̃(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “marc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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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

Related terms

• capall
• làir

 

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.