See also: marqué

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

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marque (plural marques)

  1. A brand of a manufactured product, especially of a motor car.
    Synonym: make
    Hypernym: brand
    Coordinate term: model
    • 2001 January 31, Nicholas Bannister, “BMW's unofficial input into new MGs”, in The Guardian[1]:
      The group wants Rover as its luxury marque and MG as the performance car.
    • 2020 December 3, Brett Berk, “The S.U.V.-ification of Everything Comes to Classic British Marques”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN:
      And there seems to be an intrinsic disconnect between a high-end marque and the utilitarian nature of an S.U.V.
  2. 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
  3. A ship commissioned for making captures.
    Synonym: letter of marque

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French

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Etymology

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

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marque f (plural marques)

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

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Descendants

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  • English: marque
  • Persian: مارک (mârk)
  • German: Marke

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Verb

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marque

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

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Galician

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marque

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

Portuguese

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marque

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

Spanish

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

Verb

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marque

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