Marquis meaning
An example of a marquis was the Marquis de Sade, a French aristocrat and writer who was famous for his erotic novels.
Origin of marquis
- Partly from French marquis and partly from Middle English marques both from Old French marquis, marchis from marche border country of Germanic origin merg- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- French: marquis; Old French: markis, marchis; Late Latin: marchensis; Old High German: marcha. Frankish *marka, from Proto-Germanic *markÅ, from Proto-Indo-European *mereg- (“edge, boundary").
From Wiktionary
- Meaning is “lord of the march", in sense of march (“border country").
From Wiktionary