marangon

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, feminine singular marangona)

  1. carpenter
    Synonym: (Primiero) tisler

Descendants

References
  1. Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “marangon”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 405
  2. See the entry in Buck, Carl Darling (1949) A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
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