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Marco (given name)

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Marco
PronunciationItalian: [ˈmarko]
GenderMale
Language(s)Italian
Name dayApril 25
Origin
Word/nameLatin: Marcus, Etruscan: Maris, German: marah[1]
Meaning"Warlike, Warring, Mars, Roman God of War"
Region of originItaly
Other names
Related namesMarc (French), Marcas (Irish), Marcos (Portuguese, Spanish), Marcu (Romanian), Marek (West Slavic), Mark (English), Márk (Hungarian), Markku (Finnish), Marko (South Slavic), Markos (Greek), Markus, Mark[1] (German, Scandinavian), Martin
See alsoMarcello

Marco is an Italian masculine given name of Etruscan[2] and Latin origin, derived from Marcus. It derives from the Roman god Mars. It has also Germanic origin from the element "marah".[1]

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References

  1. ^ a b c Förstemann, coll. 912, 913[incomplete short citation]
  2. ^ Pallotino, pp. 29, 30; Hendrik Wagenvoort, "The Origin of the Ludi Saeculares" in Studies in Roman Literature, Culture and Religion (Brill, 1956), p. 219 et passim; John F. Hall III, "The Saeculum Novum of Augustus and its Etruscan Antecedents", Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt II.16.3 (1986), p. 2574.