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).

Case	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

Declension of morion

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) morion	morionul	(niște) morioane	morioanele
genitive/dative	(unui) morion	morionului	(unor) morioane	morioanelor
vocative	morionule		morioanelor