Maronite

Meanings

Noun

• One of a Pre-Arab Semitic Christian ethnoreligious group in the Levant.

Adjective

• Of or pertaining to Maronites.

Origin

• Maron + -ite, after the Syriac saint Mar Maron, whose followers moved to Mount Lebanon from northern Syria, establishing the Maronite Church, from Latin Maron, from Ancient Greek Μάρων, from Classical Syriac ܡܪܘܢ.