Marcus

See also: marcus

English

Etymology

Borrowing of Latin Marcus. Doublet of Mark.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːkəs/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹkəs/

Proper noun

Marcus (plural Marcuses or Marci)

1. A male given name from Latin.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Colossians 4:10:

     Aristarchus my fellow prisoner saluteth you, and Marcus sisters sonne to Barnabas, (touching whome yee receiued commandements; if he come vnto you, receiue him:) […]

   • 1814, Titus Livius, translated by George Baker, The History of Rome, 2nd edition, volume II, London: […] T[homas] Cadell and W[illiam] Davies, […], page 323:

     The two Marci, Livius Denter, and Æmilius, ſucceeding to the conſulſhip, war broke out again with the Æquans; […]

   • 1863, Samuel Trickett, edited by John Edward Blakeney, Sermons Doctrinal and Practical, London: […] G. Norman, […], page 224:

     But, as the historian said, there were many Marci in one Cæsar, so there are many Cains and Judases in the best of us all.

   • 2001, Nigel M. Kay, editor, Ausonius: Epigrams, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 290:

     At epig. 73.5 the question ‘quis Marcus?’ is much more sensible, because there could have been many Marci to choose amongst.

   • 2008, Kate Atkinson, When Will There Be Good News, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 73:

     But 'Marcus?' – a strangely Latinate name for someone born in Sighthill. ('Aspirational mother, boss,' he said. 'Better than Titus.Or Sextus.')

   • 2016, Stella Gemmell, The Immortal Throne (The City; 2), Bantam Press, →ISBN:

     Rubin wondered who Marcus was. It was a City name, but there were many Marcuses.

Derived terms

• Marcus Island

Anagrams

• sacrum

Danish

Proper noun

Marcus

1. a male given name, variant of Markus

References

• [1] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 5644 males with the given name Marcus (compared to 2889 named Markus) have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 2000s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Mārcus. The Biblical senses derive from Ancient Greek Μᾶρκος (Mârkos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑr.kʏs/

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• Hyphenation: Mar‧cus

Proper noun

Marcus m

1. Mark (book of the Bible)
2. Mark (traditional author of the Gospel of Mark)
3. a male given name

Related terms

• Mark, Marc

German

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Marcus

1. a male given name, a less common variant of Markus

Latin

Alternative forms

• (praenominal abbreviation): M.

Etymology

From *mārtcus, from the name of the god Mārs +‎ -cus. Probable doublet of Māmercus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmaːr.kus/, [ˈmäːrkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmar.kus/, [ˈmärkus]

Proper noun

Mārcus m (genitive Mārcī, feminine Mārca); second declension

1. A masculine praenomen.
2. A masculine cognomen.
3. Mark
   • 1811, Johann Ludwig Himly, De Jesu in Coelum Ascensu, chapter 1, section 2, page 11:

     Narrant enim Marcus et Lucas, sicut et alii apostoli omnia, quae de Jesu referunt memorabilia, eo modo quo probi honestique viri, omnisque fraudis expertes solent; id quod tibi manifestissime in oculos incurret scripta eorum aliqua cum auimi attentione perlegenti.

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Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	Mārcus	Mārcī
genitive	Mārcī	Mārcōrum
dative	Mārcō	Mārcīs
accusative	Mārcum	Mārcōs
ablative	Mārcō	Mārcīs
vocative	Mārce	Mārcī

Derived terms

• Mārca f
• Mārcellus
• Mārciānus (“pertaining to Marcus”, adjective)
• Mārcīpor (“slave of Marcus”)
• Mārcius
• Mārculus

Descendants

Descendants

• Catalan: Marc
• Italian: Marco
• Ligurian: Marco
• Old French: Marc
  • French: Marc
• Portuguese: Marco
• Spanish: Marcos, Marco
• Venetan: Marco
• Walloon: Mår
• → Albanian: Mark
• → Ancient Greek: Μᾶρκος (Mârkos)
  • Greek: Μάρκος (Márkos)
• → Basque: Marko
• → Czech: Marek
• → Danish: Markus
• → Dutch: Marcus
• → English: Marcus
• → Esperanto: Marko
• → Estonian: Markus
• → Faroese: Markus
• → Finnish: Markus, Markku
• → Galician: Marcos
• → German: Markus, Marcus
• → Hawaiian: Mareko, Maleko
• → Hungarian: Márk
• → Icelandic: Markús
• → Irish: Marcas
• → Japanese: マルコ (Maruko)
• → Latvian: Marks, Markuss
• → Lithuanian: Márkas, Mõrkus
• → Manx: Markys
• → Middle English: Mark
  • English: Mark
    • → Maltese: Mark
    • → Swahili: Marko
• → Norwegian: Markus, Marcus
• → Polish: Marek
• → Portuguese: Marcos
• → Romanian: Marcu
• → Scottish Gaelic: Marc
• → Slovak: Marek
• → Swedish: Markus, Marcus
• → Ukrainian: Марко (Marko)
• → Welsh: Marc
• → West Frisian: Markus
• → Yiddish: מאַרק (mark)

References

• “Marcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Marcus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 220

Norwegian

Alternative forms

• Markus

Etymology

From Latin Marcus. First recorded in Norway c. 1100.

Proper noun

Marcus

1. a male given name

References

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• [2] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 3280 males with the given name Marcus (compared to 6268 named Markus) living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 2000s. Accessed on 19 May, 2011.

Old English

Etymology

From Latin Marcus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑr.kus/, [ˈmɑrˠ.kus]

Proper noun

Marcus m

1. Mark the Apostle

Declension

Declension of Marcus (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	Marcus	—
accusative	Marcus	—
genitive	Marces	—
dative	Marce	—

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Marcus, from Latin Marcus.

Proper noun

Marcus m (genitive/dative lui Marcus)

1. a surname from German

References

• Iordan, Iorgu (1983) Dicționar al numelor de familie românești [A Dictionary of Romanian Family Names]‎^[3], Bucharest: Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică

Swedish

Alternative forms

• Markus

Etymology

From Latin Marcus. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in the 13th century.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Marcus c (genitive Marcus)

1. a male given name

Usage notes

• Marcus / Markus was the most common given name of boys born in Sweden in the 1990s.

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [4] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 36 338 males with the given name Marcus (compared to 18 057 named Markus) living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1990s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.