The story
- Latin · derived fromMarcus
- English todayMarco Polo
After Marco Polo (1254–1324), Venetian merchant, whose travels were documented in a book that introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China. The Italian name is from Latin Marcus + Paulus.
Words from the same roots
LatinMarcus all →
marcMarcusMarkovicMarcion
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.