marquez

marquez

1. inflection of marquer:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

marquez m (plural marquezes, feminine marqueza, feminine plural marquezas)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of marquês.
   • 1908, Antonio de Albuquerque, O Marquez da Bacalhôa‎^[1], Brussels: Imprimérie Liberté, page 97:

     — Mas que havia elle de fazer, senão acceitar o offerecimento do marquez, visto não o deixarem voltar para o seu governo?

     “But what should he have done other than accept the marquis’s offering, seeing as they wouldn’t allow him back in his government?”

   • 1925 January 1, “Teria se suicidado por haver o filho casado com uma geisha [Committed suicide because his son had married a geisha]”, in Correio da Manhã‎^[2], volume XXIV, number 9296, Rio de Janeiro, page 1:

     A causa mortis official tem sido apresentada como uma syncope cardiaca, mas correm boatos de que o marquez se suicidou desgostoso com o casamento de seu filho com uma geisha.

     The official cause of death has been presented as cardiac syncope, but there are rumors that the marquis committed suicide distasteful of his son’s marriage with a geisha.