Merlin
A wizard in the Arthurian legend.
Proper noun
- A wizard in the Arthurian legend.
- I NEXT paſſed into the choir; a ſcene of transformation indeed! I had been accuſtomed to contemplate here a far different order of things. Our profeſſional Merlins have waved their wands to ſome purpoſe; and all view,...
- It is a game of chemistry and confidence, where players of gold often make teams of lead, and vice versa. Coaches are like Merlins madly mixing metals, searching for “the right combination,” even if it contradicts...
- Music, art, entertainment, medicine, and science are being changed before our very eyes by technological Merlins waving silicon wands. - 2007, Clyde Freeman Herreid, “Teaching in the Year 2061”, in Clyde Freeman...
- A male given name.
- A census-designated place in Josephine County, Oregon, United States.
Origin
From Middle English Merlyn, from Medieval Latin Merlinus and Old French Merlin, from Proto-Brythonic *Mor-ðin (literally “sea-hill”), from Proto-Celtic *mori (“sea”) + *dūnom (“stronghold, rampart”).