merlon

Concepts

merlon

bund

Synonyms

Merlon

Translations

حاجز

ساتر

merlet

Zacke

terraplén

merlón

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mɛʁ.lɔ̃/

Etymology

From Italian merlone (“merlon”), from merlo (“merlon”) + -one (suffix forming augmentatives). Merlo is derived from Late Latin merulus, merlus, possibly from Latin merula (“blackbird”) (as merlons resemble a row of birds perched on a wall), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ems- (“black; blackbird”).