marc

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

From Middle French marc.

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.

• mark

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.

• Cram, MRCA, cram, macr-, mrca

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

marc m (plural marcs)

1. frame
2. mark
3. mark (old German currency)

• emmarcar

• “marc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “marc” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “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.

• IPA^(key): /mˠaɾˠk/

From Old Irish marc, from Proto-Celtic *markos (“horse”). Cognate with Welsh march, Breton marc’h, and Old English mearh (“horse”).

marc m (genitive singular mairc, nominative plural mairc)

1. (archaic) horse

• capall
• each

• láir

Borrowed from English mark, from Old English mearc (“marker, boundary”).

marc m (genitive singular mairc, nominative plural marcanna)

1. target, goal
2. mark (stroke, tick, marking)

Borrowed from Late Latin marca.

marc m (genitive singular mairc, nominative plural mairc)

1. (money) mark; shilling

• marg

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

marc n (nominative plural marc)

1. mark (as currency etc.)

• Middle English: mark
  • English: mark
  • Scots: mark, merk

Borrowed from Frankish *mark, *marka, from Proto-Germanic *marką (“mark, sign, stamp”), from Proto-Indo-European *marǵ- (“edge, border”).

marc 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

• Middle French: marc
  • French: marc

• 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

From Proto-Celtic *markos (“horse”). Cognate with Welsh march, Breton marc’h, and beyond Celtic with Old English mearh (“horse”).

• IPA^(key): /mark/

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"

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• ech

• marcach
• marcas
• marclann
• marcradh

• Irish: marc
• Scottish Gaelic: marc

• “marc” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

From Old Irish marc, from Proto-Celtic *markos (“horse”).

• IPA^(key): /marxk/

marc m (genitive singular mairc, plural marcan)

1. (literary) horse

   Synonym: each

2. steed