marchio

• IPA^(key): /ˈmar.kjo/
• Rhymes: -arkjo
• Hyphenation: màr‧chio

A Germanic borrowing, from Frankish *mark (“sign, mark”).

marchio m (plural marchi)

1. brand, trademark, mark, label
2. branding iron (A piece of metal bent into a distinctive shape, heated and used to brand livestock)

• firma

• marchio di fabbrica

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

marchio

1. first-person singular present indicative of marchiare

• morchia

• markiō

From marcha, marca (“boundary-mark”) +‎ -iō, from Frankish *marku, from Proto-Germanic *markō (“boundary; boundary marker”), from Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs (“edge, boundary, border”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmar.kʰi.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmar.ki.o]

marchiō m (genitive marchiōnis); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin) frontier-guardsman, marquess, marquis
   • 1202, Innocent III, Venerabilem:

     Venerabilem fratrum nostrum Salzburgensem archiepiscopum, et dilectum filium abbatem de Salem et nobilem virum marchionem orientalem quorumdam principum nuntios ad sedem apostolicam destinatos benignae recepimus, et eis benevolam duximus audientiam indulgendam.

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   • 1350, Charles IV, Vita Caroli IV Capitulum VIII:

     Et sic nobis remansit solus titulus marchio Moravie sine re.

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Third-declension noun.

• "marchio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “marchio”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill