morion

English

Spanish conqueror morion

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

Smoky quartz/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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.ʁjɔ̃/

Etymology 1

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.on/, [ˈmoːriɔn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ri.on/, [ˈmɔːrion]

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
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.180
   • c. 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