marjina

Ladino

Etymology

From Italian margine, from Latin marginem, accusative of margō, from Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs (“edge, boundary, border”).

Noun

marjina f

1. margin (of a page)
2. faculty of initiative (of a person)
3. markup (of a product)

Further reading

• Joseph Nehama, Jesús Cantera (1977) “márǧina”, in Dictionnaire du Judéo-Espagnol (in French), Madrid: CSIC, →ISBN, page 347