Italian

Noun

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)

Derived terms

• marchio di fabbrica

Synonyms

• firma

Verb

marchio

1. first-person singular present indicative of marchiare

Anagrams

• morchia

Latin

Alternative forms

• markiō

Etymology

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

Noun

marchiō m ‎(genitive marchiōnis); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin) frontier-guardsman
   • 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.

   • 1350, Charles IV, Vita Caroli IV Capitulum VIII

     Et sic nobis remansit solus titulus marchio Moravie sine re.

Inflection

Third declension.

Derived terms

References

• MARCHIO in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• “marchio” in Jan Frederik Niermeyer’s Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus (1976)