Definitions for Marrano

Marrano Mar·ra·no

Spelling: [muh-rah-noh]
IPA: /məˈrɑ noʊ/

Marrano is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 113 anagrams from letters in Marrano (aamnorr).

Definitions for Marrano

noun

  1. a Spanish or Portuguese Jew who was converted to Christianity during the late Middle Ages, usually under threat of death or persecution, especially one who continued to adhere to Judaism in secret.

Origin of Marrano

Spanish: literally, pig, from the Jewish law forbidding the eating of pork (probably Arabic maḥram forbidden)

Examples for Marrano

Antonio de Montezinos was a Marrano, whom business or love of travel had led to America.

Nearly all Marrano members had to commence to learn Hebrew in advanced age!

There were in Portugal hardly any but Jewish, that is to say, Marrano physicians.

There were then in Hamburg 125 adults of Marrano descent, among whom were ten capitalists, two physicians, and three artisans.

A Marrano physician named Jacob Zemach appears to have stood at their head.

After all, the writer turned out to be a Marrano, one Emanuel da Costa.

He consented to the restriction of Marrano emigration, so strenuously insisted upon by the Portuguese court.

Portugal fell to a Marrano physician who had escaped from the Inquisition.

A Marrano physician, who had escaped from Portugal, and was his devoted adherent, received the crown of Portugal.

The king did, indeed, institute a strict inquiry to discover the accomplices of the two Marrano monks.

Word Value for Marrano
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