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.kus/, [ˈmärkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmar.kus/, [ˈmärkus]

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.