Where does “Marcellus” come from?

Marcellus derives from Latin Marcellus, a diminutive of Latin Marcus, which descends from Proto-Italic Māwortis, the genitive form of the god Mars, with the diminutive suffix from Proto-Indo-European -kos.

Ancestry of “Marcellus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinMarcellusA name of a plebeian Roman gens
2LatinMārcus—
3LatinMartīnus—
4Latin-īnusof or pertaining to; -ine
5Proto-Italic-īnosof/belonging to
6Proto-Indo-European-iHnosCreates adjectives of materials
7Proto-Indo-European-no-adjectival suffix
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