Where does “marron” come from?

marron (French) comes from Italian marrone, from Byzantine Greek μάραον — sweet chestnut.

marron (French): horse-chestnut; chestnut; chestnut brown

Definitions

  1. horse-chestnut; chestnut; chestnut brown

Ancestry of “marron”, step by step

marron traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Italian marrone

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianmarronebrown; a large and savoury chestnut variety; the...
2Byzantine Greekμάραονsweet chestnut

via Spanish cimarrón

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishcimarrónferal; rural; campestral; of a wild cultivar
2Taínosimaranwild

Words derived from “marron”

Every word from Byzantine Greek μάραον →