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English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (makrón), neuter form of ?????? (makrós, “long”) (English macro-).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: m?k?r?n, m?k?r?n, IPA^(key): /?mæk??n/, /?me?k??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?me?k??n/, /?mæk??n/
• Hyphenation: ma?cron

Noun

macron (plural macrons or macra)

1. (orthography) A short, straight, horizontal diacritical mark (¯) placed over any of various letters, usually to indicate that the pronunciation of a vowel is long. [from 19th c.]

   Antonyms: breve, micron

   Coordinate terms: solidus, vinculum

Usage notes

The plural macra is rare.

Related terms

• macro-

Translations

Further reading

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “macron”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
• macron on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Camron, Carmon, Corman

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma?.kr?n/

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (makrón), neuter form of ?????? (makrós, “long”).

Noun

macron m (plural macrons, diminutive macrontje n)

1. (orthography) macron

Hypernyms

• diakriet

French

Etymology

From Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.k???/

Noun

macron m (plural macrons)

1. macron

Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek

Noun

macron m (invariable)

1. macron

English

Etymology 1

Variant form of maroon (“chestnut”), later reinforced by French marron.

Noun

marron (plural marrons)

1. A sweet chestnut. [from 19th c.]
   • 2007, Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones, Allen & Unwin 2007, p. 137:

     ‘I mean, shit, even if I had've come down here of a weekend and taken back a sack full of marron, I would have killed the pig up there.’

Derived terms

• marron glacé

Etymology 2

Wikispecies

From Nyunga marran.

Noun

marron (plural marrons)

1. Cherax tenuimanus, a type of freshwater crayfish from Western Australia.

Synonyms

• hairy marron, Margaret River marron

See also

• gilgie, jilgie
• yabby, yabbie

Anagrams

• Morran

Dutch

Alternative forms

• Marron

Etymology

Borrowed from French marron (“feral; fugitive”, adjective), from Spanish cimarrón (“fugitive, wild, feral”), from Taíno simaran.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??r?n/
• Hyphenation: mar?ron
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

marron m (plural marrons)

1. Maroon (descendant of escaped African slaves in the Americas or Caribbean; escaped slave)

   Synonyms: bosneger, boslandcreool

Finnish

Noun

marron

1. Genitive singular form of marto.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.???/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian marrone.

Noun

marron m (plural marrons)

1. horse-chestnut
2. chestnut
3. chestnut brown
4. A token used as a control of the presence of someone at his post
5. (pyrotechnics) firecracker (on a rocket)
6. (informal) punch (with the fist)
7. (informal) head

Adjective

marron (invariable)

1. (France) brown

Usage notes

• This adjective is used mainly in France. Elsewhere, the usual adjective is brun.
• Like most colors that take their name from animals and plants, the adjective is invariable. However, by analogy with the corresponding noun which has a plural, some people may erroneously consider it variable in number and use marrons as the plural.

Derived terms

• marron glacé
• cochon marron

Descendants

• ? Asturian: marrón
• ? Catalan: marró
• ? Galician: marrón
• ? Portuguese: marrom
• ? Spanish: marrón

Etymology 2

From a West Indies creole, from Spanish cimarrón, from cima.

Adjective

marron (feminine singular marronne, masculine plural marrons, feminine plural marronnes)

1. that has become wild again (used of a slave or animal who has returned to a free or wild state)
2. illicit, crooked (of professions)

Noun

marron m (plural marrons, feminine marronne)

1. maroon (a slave or animal who has run away to live free)

Further reading

• “marron” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).