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Venetian
Etymology
From Medieval Latin mergō, mergōnem, from Latin mergus (“diver, loon”).[1] The sense of “carpenter” evolved from “one who repairs ships underwater” (in the Venetian Arsenal).[2] Compare the semantic development of Italian palombaro (“deep-sea diver”), from palumbārius (“a kind of hawk which attacks doves”). Cognate with Italian marangone (“cormorant”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.ɾaŋˈɡoŋ/
- Rhymes: -oŋ
- Hyphenation: ma‧ran‧gón
Noun
marangon m (plural marangoni, female equivalent marangona)
- carpenter
- Synonym: (Primiero) tisler
Descendants
References
- ^ Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “marangon”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 405
- ^ See the entry in Buck, Carl Darling (1949) A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages, Chicago: University of Chicago Press