marc

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

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

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, published 2008, page 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, published 1992, page 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.

marc (plural marcs)

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

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

• Cram, MRCA, cram, macr-, mrca

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

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

marc m (plural marcs)

1. frame
2. (figurative) framework, setting

   Us aconsellarem per obtenir el resultat més favorable en el marc de la legalitat vigent.

   We will advise you so as to obtain the most favourable result in the existing legal framework.

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

• emmarcar

• “marc”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “marc”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “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.

From Middle French marc (14th c.), deverbal from marcher (“to trample, walk over”).

• IPA^(key): /maʁ/
• Homophones: marcs, marre, marrent, marres (general), mare, mares (one pronunciation)

marc m (plural marcs)

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

• marc de café

From Old French marc (12th c.), from Frankish *mark. Doublet of mark. Also related with marque and marche (“frontier”).

• IPA^(key): /maʁ/, /maʁk/
• Homophones: marcs (general), mare, mares, marre, marrent, marres (form 1), Marc, mark, marks, marque, marques (form 2)

marc m (plural marcs)

1. (history) a weight, especially of gold and silver, equivalent to ca. 245 grams

• au marc le franc

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

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /mˠɑɾˠk/^[1]
• (Connacht, Ulster) 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

   Synonyms: capall, each, (literary) peall

• 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. Doublet of marg.

marc m (genitive singular mairc, nominative plural mairc)

1. (money) mark; shilling

• marg

Borrowed from Middle High German marz

• IPA^(key): /ˈmart͡s/
• Rhymes: -art͡s
• Syllabification: marc

marc

1. March (month)

   Synonym: strëmiannik

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

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

• IPA^(key): /mɑrk/, [mɑrˠk]

marc n (nominative plural marc)

1. mark (as currency etc.)

Strong a-stem:

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

From Early Medieval Latin marcus, itself borrowed from Frankish *mark, from Proto-Germanic *marką (“mark, sign, stamp”).

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

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

• ech

• Irish: marc
• Scottish Gaelic: marc

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “marc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Borrowed from French marc.

marc n (uncountable)

1. pomace, marc

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

• marcachd

• IPA^(key): /mark/

Borrowed from English mark.

marc m (plural marcau)

1. mark, spot, patch

   Synonyms: brycheuyn, man, smot, staen

2. note, annotation

   Synonyms: nodyn, arnod

3. sign, symbol

   Synonyms: arwydd, symbol

marc m (plural marciau)

1. alternative form of morc (“mark, Deutschmark”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

marc

1. nasal mutation of barc (“barque”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

marc

1. nasal mutation of barc (“bark”)

• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “marc”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “marc”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies