英文词源
- marquis
- marquis: [14] Etymologically, a marquis is a lord of the ‘marches’ or borderlands. The word comes from Old French marquis, an alteration of an earlier marchis. This was a derivative of medieval Latin marca ‘border, frontier’, source of archaic English march ‘border’. The feminine form marchioness [16] comes from medieval Latin marchionissa, a derivative of marchiō ‘lord of the marches’, which likewise was based on marca.
The French feminine form of marquis is marquise. This was borrowed into English in the 17th century and used for a ‘large tent’. It soon came to be misanalysed as a plural form, and so a new ‘singular’, marquee, was born.
=> march, mark, marquee - marquis (n.)
- also marquess, c. 1300, title of nobility, from Old French marchis, literally "ruler of a border area," from Old French marche "frontier," from Medieval Latin marca "frontier, frontier territory" (see march (n.1)). Originally the ruler of border territories in various European regions (such as Italian marchese, Spanish marqués); later a mere title of rank, below duke and above count. Related: Marquisate.
中文词源
marquis（侯爵）是欧洲贵族爵位中的一种，在公爵（duke）之下、伯爵（count）之上，也可拼写为marquess。该词来自法语marchis，字面意思是“镇守边疆的诸侯”，来自marche（边疆），与英语单词march（行军）都来自拉丁语marca（边疆）。欧洲中世纪边疆与内陆的概念区别源自于古罗马帝国时期对帝国行省的划分，比较稳定的内陆省份归于元老院管理，而不稳定的边疆省份归于皇帝管理。中世纪以后，则把封疆贵族按照相似的概念分作最受君主信赖、管理边疆的“侯爵”，和地位较低、管理内地一方领土的“伯爵”。
marquis：['mɑ:kwis] n.侯爵
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来自marquess,来自古法语marchis,边境管理者，封疆大吏，来自拉丁语marca,边界，国界线，词源同mark,margin.后仅作为一种贵族称号。
