Meaning

noun humorist who wrote about the imaginary life of cockroaches (1878-1937)

noun nobleman (in various countries) ranking above a count

originFrom Middle English markis, from Old French markis, marchis, from Late Latin marchensis, from Old High German marcha and Frankish *marku, from Proto-Germanic *markō, from Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs (“edge, boundary”). Meaning is “lord of the march”, in sense of march (“border country”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0