==Etymology==The word comes from the French language, adapted from the Italian "merlone", possibly a shortened form of "mergola", connected with Latin "mergae" (pitchfork), or from a diminutive "moerulus", from "murus" or "moerus" (a wall).
Prostor med dvema cinama se imenuje parapet ("crenel"), nasledstvo cin in strelnih lin je "crenellation".