marque

See also: marqué

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French marque. Doublet of mark. Ultimately cognate with marquee.

The privateering sense derives via Middle French lettre de marque (literally, "letter of reprisal" or "letter of border-licensing").

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɑː(ɹ)k/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
  • Homophones: marc, mark, Mark

Noun

marque (plural marques)

  2. A brand of a manufactured product, especially of a motor car.
    Synonym: make
    Hypernym: brand
    Coordinate term: model
  4. A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals or privateering; the document recording this license.
    Synonyms: letter of marque, letter of marque and reprisal
  6. A privateer ship commissioned for making captures.
    Synonym: letter of marque
    • 1777, Edmund Burke, A Letter from Edmund Burke, Esq., One of the Representatives in Parliament for the City of Bristol, to John Farr and John Harris, Esqrs., Sheriffs of That City, on the Affairs of America, page 62:
      A bill for enabling the Admiralty to grant commissions, or letters of marque, to private ships of war, passed the House of Commons without a single voice against it.
    • 1793, Thomas Jefferson, edited by H. A. Washington, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson‎[3], volume IV, page 42:
      Knowing of the war when she left Jamaica, and that our coast was lined with small French privateers, she armed for her defence, and took one of those commissions usually called letters of marque.?
    • 1897, Gomer Williams, History of the Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque, page 36:
      In 1739, Spain, having failed to pay the money stipulated in the Convention as compensation to those who had suffered by the depredations, letters of marque and reprisal were granted against the Spaniards.

Derived terms

Translations

French

Etymology

Etymology tree
Middle French marquer
Middle French marque
French marque

    From Middle French marque (15th c.), deverbal from marquer, which see for more. Related with marc (“a weight”), mark (“a currency”), marche (“frontier”).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    marque f (plural marques)

    1. mark (spot)
    2. brand (of a company)
    3. mark (on one's body, e.g. a birthmark)

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • → Egyptian Arabic: مرك (mark)
    • → English: marque
    • → German: Marke
    • → Persian: مارک (mârk)

    See also

    Verb

    marque

    1. inflection of marquer:
      1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
      2. second-person singular imperative

    Further reading

    Galician

    Verb

    marque

    1. inflection of marcar:
      1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
      2. third-person singular imperative

    Portuguese

    Verb

    marque

    1. inflection of marcar:
      1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
      2. third-person singular imperative

    Spanish

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈmaɾke/ [ˈmaɾ.ke]
    • Rhymes: -aɾke
    • Syllabification: mar‧que

    Verb

    marque

    1. inflection of marcar:
      1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
      2. third-person singular imperative
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