marchio

marchio m (plural marchi)

1. brand, trademark, mark, label
2. branding iron (A piece of metal bent into a distinctive shape, heated and used to brand livestock)

• firma

• marchio di fabbrica

marchio

1. first-person singular present indicative of marchiare

• morchia

• markiō

From marcha, marca (“boundary-mark”) +‎ -iō, from Frankish *marka, from Proto-Germanic *markō (“boundary; boundary marker”), from Proto-Indo-European *marǵ- (“edge, boundary, border”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmar.kʰi.oː/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmar.ki.o/

marchiō m (genitive marchiōnis); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin) frontier-guardsman
   • 1202, Innocent III, Venerabilem :

     Venerabilem fratrum nostrum Salzburgensem archiepiscopum, et dilectum filium abbatem de Salem et nobilem virum marchionem orientalem quorumdam principum nuntios ad sedem apostolicam destinatos benignae recepimus, et eis benevolam duximus audientiam indulgendam.

   • 1350, Charles IV, Vita Caroli IV Capitulum VIII:

     Et sic nobis remansit solus titulus marchio Moravie sine re.

Third declension.

• marchio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “marchio”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: Brill