different between merlot vs merlon

English

Noun

merlot (usually uncountable, plural merlots)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Merlot

Anagrams

• Molter, Romelt, molter

Spanish

Etymology

French Merlot

Noun

merlot m (plural merlots)

1. merlot

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m??l?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?l(?)n/
• Hyphenation: mer?lon

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French merlon, from Italian merlone (“merlon”), from merlo (“merlon”) + -one (suffix forming augmentatives). Merlo is derived from Late Latin merulus, merlus, possibly from Latin merula (“blackbird”) (as merlons resemble a row of birds perched on a wall), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ems- (“black; blackbird”). The English word is cognate with Italian mergolo (“battlement; pinnacle”), Portuguese merlão, Spanish merlón (“merlon”).

Noun

merlon (plural merlons)

1. (architecture, military, historical) Any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement, originally for archers to shield behind while shooting arrows over the embrasures, or through loopholes in the merlons.

   Synonyms: cop, (heraldry) embattle

Translations

Etymology 2

A variant of merlin.

Noun

merlon (plural merlons)

1. Alternative spelling of merlin (“a small falcon, Falco columbarius”)

Notes

References

Further reading

• merlon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Italian merlone (“merlon”), from merlo (“merlon”) + -one (suffix forming augmentatives). Merlo is derived from Late Latin merulus, merlus, possibly from Latin merula (“blackbird”) (as merlons resemble a row of birds perched on a wall), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ems- (“black; blackbird”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??.l??/
• Hyphenation: mer?lon

Noun

merlon m (plural merlons)

1. (architecture, military) merlon

Descendants

• ? English: merlon

References

Romanian

Etymology

From French merlon.

Noun

merlon n (plural merloane)

1. merlon

Declension