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4-letter words (2 found)

CRAM,MARC,

3-letter words (7 found)

ARC,ARM,CAM,CAR,MAC,MAR,RAM,

2-letter words (3 found)

AM,AR,MA,

You can make 12 words from marc according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of marc

marc amrc mrac rmac armc ramc macr amcr mcar cmar acmr camr mrca rmca mcra cmra rcma crma arcm racm acrm carm rcam cram

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Definitions and meaning of marc

marc

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Middle French marc, from Old French marcher (“to trample”).

Noun

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.
Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

marc (plural marcs)

  1. (historical, uncommon) Alternative form of mark: various half-pound units of mass, various European currencies.

References

  • “marc”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • Cram, MRCA, cram, macr-, mrca

Catalan

Etymology

Of Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *marką.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmark]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈmaɾk]
  • Rhymes: -aɾk

Noun

marc m (plural marcs)

  1. frame
  2. (figurative) framework, setting
  3. (historical) marco, Spanish mark, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to about 230 g
  4. (historical) mark, any of various other half-pound units of mass
  5. (historical) mark, a former German currency

Derived terms

  • emmarcar

Further reading

  • “marc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “marc”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “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.

French

Etymology

Deverbal of marcher (“to trample, walk over”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maʁ/

Noun

marc m (plural marcs)

  1. pomace, marc
  2. grounds (e.g. from coffee)

Derived terms

  • marc de café

Further reading

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

Irish

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /mˠɑɾˠk/
  • (Connacht, Ulster) IPA(key): /mˠaɾˠk/

Etymology 1

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

Noun

marc m (genitive singular mairc, nominative plural mairc)

  1. (archaic) horse
    Synonyms: capall, each, (literary) peall
Declension
Related terms
  • láir

Etymology 2

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

Noun

marc m (genitive singular mairc, nominative plural marcanna)

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

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Late Latin marca. Doublet of marg.

Noun

marc m (genitive singular mairc, nominative plural mairc)

  1. (money) mark; shilling
Declension
Synonyms
  • marg

Mutation

References

Kashubian

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle High German marz

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmart͡s/
  • Syllabification: marz

Noun

marc

  1. March (month)
    Synonym: strëmiannik

Further reading

  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “marzec”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎[1]

Old English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɑrk/, [mɑrˠk]

Noun

marc n (nominative plural marc)

  1. mark (as currency etc.)

Declension

Descendants

  • Middle English: mark
    • English: mark
    • Scots: mark, merk
  • → Irish: marg

Old French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin marcus, itself borrowed from Frankish *mark, from Proto-Germanic *marką (“mark, sign, stamp”), from Proto-Indo-European *marǵ- (“edge, border”).

Noun

marc oblique singular, m (oblique plural mars, nominative singular mars, nominative plural marc)

  1. mark (small distinguishing feature)
  2. mark (unit of currency)

Descendants

  • Middle French: marc
    • French: marc

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (merc)
  • merche on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Old Irish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mark/

Noun

marc m (genitive mairc, nominative plural mairc)

  1. horse
    • c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, Corm. Y 851

Inflection

Synonyms

  • ech

Derived terms

  • marcach
  • marcas
  • marclann
  • marcradh

Descendants

  • Irish: marc
  • Scottish Gaelic: marc

Mutation

Further reading

  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “marc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French marc.

Noun

marc n (uncountable)

  1. pomace, marc

Declension

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /marxk/

Noun

marc m (genitive singular mairc, plural marcan)

  1. (literary) horse
    Synonym: each
  2. steed

Derived terms

  • marcachd

Mutation

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ark

Noun

marc

  1. Nasal mutation of barc.

Mutation


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