marrano
/məˈɹɑːnəʊ/noun
marrano is a noun meaning “Alternative letter-case form of Marrano: a Jew who converted to Catholicism under threat or force” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-A-R-R-A-N-O, and it appears about once in every 48 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of marrano is marranos.
What does marrano mean?
noun
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of Marrano: a Jew who converted to Catholicism under threat or force.
noun
- 1
Any of the Sephardi Jews who stayed in Iberia during the Spanish Inquisition, and continued to practice Judaism in secret.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce marrano?
- UK /məˈɹɑːnəʊ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of marrano
- marranos plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is marrano?
Marrano appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Marrano in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Iberian Jew who practised Judaism in secret:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does marrano come from?
From Spanish marrano, of disputed origin. Perhaps a transferred use of marrano (“hog”), but many sources regard them as distinct words. Doublet of Muharram.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).