Of or belonging to the ancient region of Marmarica on the North African coast (now in eastern Libya, around Tobruk).
Origin
Late Middle English; earliest use found in Geoffrey Chaucer (c1340–1400), poet and administrator. From classical Latin Marmaricus of or belonging to Marmarica, African from Hellenistic Greek Μαρμαρικός of or belonging to Marmarica, a region of North Africa between Egypt and Cyrenaica, probably from Μαρμαρ-, of unknown origin (perhaps from an African language) + -ικός.