morion

English

Spanish conqueror morion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɒɹɪən/

Etymology 1

From Middle French morion, from, Spanish morrión, from morra (“upper part of the head”), from morro (“muzzle, snout”), from Vulgar Latin *murrum (“muzzle, snout”). Related to moraine (“an amassment of rocks on a glacier”).

Noun

morion (plural morions)

1. (historical) A kind of open brimmed helmet used by footsoldiers in the 16th and 17th centuries, having no visor or bever. [from 16th c.]
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   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, p.12:

     The morion is a kind of open helmet, without visor or bever, somewhat resembling a hat; it was commonly worn by the harqubussiers and musqueteers.

Translations

type of helmet

• Basque: morrioi
• Belarusian: марыён (maryjón)
• Catalan: morrió (ca)
• Czech: morion
• Dutch: morion (nl)
• French: morion (fr)
• German: Morion
• Italian: morione
• Japanese: モリオン (morion)
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• Korean: 모리온 (morion)
• Lithuanian: morionas
• Norwegian: morion
• Polish: morion
• Portuguese: morrião (pt) m, bacinete m
• Russian: морион (morion)
• Spanish: morrión (es)
• Swedish: morion

Smoky quartz/morion

Etymology 2

From French morion, from Late Latin mōrion, a misreading in some manuscripts for Latin mormoriōn.

Noun

morion (plural morions)

1. (mineralogy) A brown or black variety of quartz. [from 18th c.]

Anagrams

• Moroni, room in

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.ʁjɔ̃/

Etymology 1

From Spanish morrión, from morra (“upper part of the head”), from morro (“muzzle, snout”), from Vulgar Latin *murrum (“muzzle, snout”). Related to moraine (“an amassment of rocks on a glacier”) and morailles (“barnacle, twitch”).

Noun

morion m (plural morions)

1. morion, a kind of helmet.

Etymology 2

From Latin mormoriōn (“a black variety of quartz”), misread in some manuscripts as mōrion (“nightshade”).

Noun

morion m (plural morions)

1. morion, a kind of black quartz

Further reading

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

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μώριον (mṓrion) or μοίριον (moírion) (Hesychios).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmoː.ri.on/, [ˈmoːriɔn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ri.on/, [ˈmɔːrion]

Noun

mōrion n (genitive mōriī); second declension

1. denoting some kinds of nightshades
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.180
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 25.148

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mōrion	mōria
Genitive	mōriī	mōriōrum
Dative	mōriō	mōriīs
Accusative	mōrion	mōria
Ablative	mōriō	mōriīs
Vocative	mōrion	mōria

References

• “morion”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• morion in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Middle French

Noun

morion m (plural morions)

1. morion