different between marian vs grotto

Old Saxon

From Proto-West Germanic *m?rijan, from Proto-Germanic *m?rijan?.

m?rian

From Italian grotta, from Vulgar Latin grupta, from Classical Latin crypta. Doublet of crypt.

grotto (plural grottos or grottoes)

A small cave.
An artificial cavern-like retreat.
A Marian shrine, usually built in a cavern-like structure.
A local organization of cavers that typically organizes trips to caves and provides information and training for caving; a caving club.
- 1987, National Speleological Society, NSS News, vol. 45-46, p.331:
  An earlier attempt to organize a grotto in the Indiana, PA, area in the mid-1970s failed to succeed, but from it developed the informal Chestnut Ridge Explorers Association.
(Satanism) A secretive name for a local group of underground Satanists.

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