different between maquis vs marquis

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French maquis, from Corsican machja (related to Italian macchia), ultimately from Latin macula. Doublet of macula.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?maki?/, /ma?ki?/

Noun

maquis (uncountable)

1. (botany) Dense Mediterranean coastal scrub. [from 19th c.]
2. (historical) The French resistance movement during World War II, or other similar movements elsewhere. [from 1940s]
   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, page 75:

     By this time O.S. membership numbered some 4,500, and many of those who escaped imprisonment either fled abroad or formed the nucleus of a growing maquis in the more inaccessible parts of the country.

Translations

Anagrams

• umiaqs

French

Etymology

From Corsican machja or macchia, from Latin macula (“spot”), with addition of the suffix -is.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.ki/

Noun

maquis m (plural maquis)

1. (botany) macchia (Mediterranean brush)
2. (botany) thicket

   Synonym: broussaille

3. (figuratively, historical, military) resistance, underground (movement during World War II)

   Synonym: guérilla

Derived terms

• maquisard
• prendre le maquis

Descendants

• ? English: maquis
• ? Portuguese: maquis
• ? Spanish: maquis

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• maqui

Etymology

Borrowed from French maquis, from Corsican macchia, from Vulgar Latin *macla, from Latin macula. Doublet of mancha, malha, mágoa, mangra, and mácula.

Noun

maquis m (plural maquis)

1. maquis; macchia (type of brushland common in Corsica)

Noun

maquis m, f (plural maquis)

1. maquis (member of the French resistance during the Second World War)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French maquis.

Noun

maquis m or f (plural maquis)

1. maquis (Resistance during the Second World War)
2. maquis (member of the Resistance during the Second World War)

English

Alternative forms

• marquess

Etymology

From French marquis, from Old French markis, marchis, from Late Latin marchensis, from Old High German marcha and Frankish *marku, from Proto-Germanic *mark?, from Proto-Indo-European *mar?- (“edge, boundary”).

Meaning is “lord of the march”, in sense of march (“border country”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m??.kw?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /m??.?ki/, /?m??.kw?s/
• (General American, for the plural spelled marquis) IPA^(key): /m??.?kiz/

Noun

marquis (plural marquises or marquis)

1. A nobleman in England, France, and Germany, of a rank next below that of duke, but above a count. Originally, the marquis was an officer whose duty was to guard the marches or frontiers of the kingdom. The office has ceased, and the name is now a mere title conferred by letters patent or letters close.
2. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genus Bassarona.

Derived terms

• marchioness
• marquee
• marquisate

Translations

Anagrams

• asquirm

Catalan

Verb

marquis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive form of marcar

French

Etymology

Old French marchis, from the same origin as marcher.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?.ki/

Noun

marquis m (plural marquis, feminine marquise)

1. marquess (title of nobility)

Further reading

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