morion

English

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morion

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Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɒɹɪən/

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Etymology 1

From Middle French morion, from, Spanish morrión, from morra (“upper part of the head”), from morro (“muzzle, snout”), from Vulgar Latin *murrum (“muzzle, snout”). Related to moraine (“an amassment of rocks on a glacier”).

Noun

morion (plural morions)

1. (historical) A kind of open brimmed helmet used by footsoldiers in the 16th and 17th centuries, having no visor or bevor. [from 16th c.]
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 9, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     The Roman footmen caried not their morions, sword and target only, as for other armes (saith Cicero) they were so accustomed to weare them continually, that they hindered them no more than their limbs […].

   • 1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume 1, I.1:

     This unlucky defect, however, his industry supplied by a vizor, which he made of paste-board, and fixed so artificially to the morrion, that it looked like an intire helmet.

   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 12:

     The morion is a kind of open helmet, without visor or bever, somewhat resembling a hat; it was commonly worn by the harqubussiers and musqueteers.

Translations

type of helmet

Basque: morrioi Belarusian: марыён (maryjón) Catalan: morrió (ca) Czech: morion Dutch: morion (nl) French: morion (fr) German: Morion Italian: morione Japanese: モリオン (morion) Korean: 모리온 (morion) Lithuanian: morionas Norwegian: morion Polish: morion Portuguese: morrião (pt) m, bacinete m Russian: морион (ru) (morion) Spanish: morrión (es) Swedish: morion

Etymology 2

From French morion, from Late Latin mōrion, a misreading in some manuscripts for Latin mormoriōn.

Noun

morion (plural morions)

1. (mineralogy) A brown or black variety of quartz. [from 18th c.]

Anagrams

• Moroni, room in

French

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morion (casque)

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.ʁjɔ̃/

• Audio (France):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Etymology 1

French Wikipedia has an article on:

morion (minéral)

Wikipedia ^fr

Borrowed from Spanish morrión, from morra (“upper part of the head”), from morro (“muzzle, snout”), from Vulgar Latin *murrum (“muzzle, snout”). Related to moraine (“an amassment of rocks on a glacier”) and morailles (“barnacle, twitch”).

Noun

morion m (plural morions)

1. morion, a kind of helmet

Etymology 2

From Latin mormoriōn (“a black variety of quartz”), misread in some manuscripts as mōrion (“nightshade”).

Noun

morion m (plural morions)

1. morion, a kind of black quartz

Further reading

• “morion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmoː.ri.ɔn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɔː.ri.on]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μώριον (mṓrion) or μοίριον (moírion) (Hesychios).

Noun

mōrion n (genitive mōriī); second declension

1. denoting some kinds of nightshades
   • 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.180
   • 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 25.148

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

	singular	plural
nominative	mōrion	mōria
genitive	mōriī	mōriōrum
dative	mōriō	mōriīs
accusative	mōrion	mōria
ablative	mōriō	mōriīs
vocative	mōrion	mōria

Etymology 2

A misreading from mormorion, ultimately from unknown origin.

Noun

mōrion n (genitive mōriī); second declension

1. a kind of dark brown rock crystal

References

• “morion”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “morion”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Middle French

Noun

morion m (plural morions)

1. morion

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French morion.

Noun

morion n (plural morioane)

1. morion

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	morion	morionul		morioane	morioanele
genitive-dative	morion	morionului		morioane	morioanelor
vocative	morionule			morioanelor