Marrano

• marrano

From Spanish marrano, of disputed origin. Perhaps a transferred use of marrano (“hog”), but many sources regard them as distinct words. Doublet of Muharram.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /məˈɹɑːnəʊ/

Marrano (plural Marranos)

1. (historical, Judaism) Any of the Sephardi Jews who stayed in Iberia during the Spanish Inquisition, and continued to practice Judaism in secret.
   • 1914, Israel Zangwill, Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People‎^[1]:

     Look at the Crypto-Jews, the Marranos, who for centuries lived a double life, outwardly Christians, but handing down secretly from generation to generation the faith, the traditions, the observances of Judaism.

   • 1999, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage, published 2010, page 161:

     In the Portuguese universities, the Marranos had studied logic, physics, medicine and mathematics, but they had no expertise in the more intuitive disciplines of Jewish practice.

• Marranic
• Marranism

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