marque

See also: marqué

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French marque. Doublet of mark.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑː(ɹ)k/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
• Homophones: mark, Mark

Noun

marque (plural marques)

1. A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals; a letter of marque.
2. A brand or make of a manufactured product, especially of a motor car (in contradistinction to a 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.

3. A ship commissioned for making captures.

Translations

brand of a manufactured product

• Finnish: merkki (fi)
• French: marque (fr) f
• German: Marke (de) f
• Vietnamese: nhãn hiệu (vi), mác (vi)

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maʁk/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aʁk
• Homophones: Marc, mark, marks, marques (general), marc, marcs (one 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

• à vos marques, prêts, partez
• hôte de marque
• image de marque
• marque commerciale
• marque de fabrique
• marque déposée
• marque-page
• marquer
• nom de marque
• ouvrir la marque
• prendre ses marques
• trouver ses marques

 

Descendants

• → English: marque
• → German: Marke
  • → Kashubian: merk
  • → Yiddish: מאַרקע (marke)

See also

• signe

Verb

marque

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

Further reading

• “marque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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