different between marquis vs rhythmic

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).

English

Alternative forms

• rythmic
• rhythmick (obsolete)

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ???????? (rhuthmikós), from ?????? (rhuthmós, “measured flow or movement, symmetry, rhythm”) +? -???? (-ikós, suffix forming adjectives).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???ð.m?k/, /???ð.m?k/

Adjective

rhythmic (comparative more rhythmic, superlative most rhythmic)

1. Of or relating to rhythm.
2. Characterized by rhythm.
3. Written in verse, especially rhyming verse.
4. With regular, repetitive motion or sound.

Derived terms

• arhythmic
• dysrhythmic
• idiorhythmic
• irrhythmic
• rhythmical
• unrhythmic

Translations