Marco (given name)

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Marco
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PronunciationItalian: [ˈmarko]
GenderMale
Language(s)Italy
Name day April 25
Origin
Word/name Latin: Marcus, Etruscan: Maris, German: marah [1]
Meaning"Warlike, Warring, Mars, Roman God of War"
Region of originItaly
Other names
Related names Marc (French), Marcas (Irish), Marcos (Portuguese, Spanish), Marcu (Romanian), Marek (West Slavic), Mark (English), Márk (Hungarian), Markku (Finnish), Marko (South Slavic), Markos (Greek), Markus, Mark [1] (German, Scandinavian), Martin
See also Marcello

Marco is an Italian masculine given name of Etruscan [2] and Latin origin, derived from Marcus. It derives from the Roman god Mars.

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  1. 1 2 Förstemann, coll. 912, 913[ incomplete short citation ]
  2. Pallotino, pp. 29, 30; Hendrik Wagenvoort, "The Origin of the Ludi Saeculares" in Studies in Roman Literature, Culture and Religion (Brill, 1956), p. 219 et passim; John F. Hall III, "The Saeculum Novum of Augustus and its Etruscan Antecedents", Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt II.16.3 (1986), p. 2574.