marcus

• markus

From Vulgar Latin *(a)māricōsus, from Latin amārus. Compare Spanish and Portuguese amargoso, Sardinian marigosu.

marcus

1. bitter

• amur
• muarka

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmar.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmar.kus]

Late back-formation from marculus, which was interpreted as having the diminutive suffix -ulus.

marcus m (genitive marcī); second declension

1. (Late Latin) large hammer, sledgehammer

Second-declension noun.

• malleus
• tudes

• marcellus (“small hammer”)

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

Borrowed from Frankish *mark.

• marca, marcha, marha, marka, markha

marcus m (genitive marcī); second declension^[1][2]

2. (Medieval Latin) mark (unit of currency, measurement)

Second-declension noun.

Borrowed from Frankish *marku.

marcus m (genitive marcī); second declension^[1]

1. (Medieval Latin) alternative form of marca (“boundary, limit”)

Second-declension noun.

Likely from Gaulish.

marcus m (genitive marcī); second declension

1. (dialectal, Gaul) type of vine known for its fruitfulness
   • 4 CE – c. 70 CE, Columella, On Agriculture 3.25:

     Earum altera, quam Galliarum incolae marcum vocant, mediocris vini

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Second-declension noun.

• Adams, J. N. (2007), The Regional Diversification of Latin 200 BC - AD 600‎^[1] (quotation in English; overall work in English), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN