mercator
See also: Mercator
Latin
Etymology
From mercor (“trade, deal in goods”) + -tor.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /merˈkaː.tor/, [mɛrˈkäːt̪ɔr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /merˈka.tor/, [merˈkäːt̪or]
Noun
mercātor m (genitive mercātōris, feminine mercātrīx); third declension
- merchant, trader, wholesale dealer
- dealer, speculator
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | mercātor | mercātōrēs |
| Genitive | mercātōris | mercātōrum |
| Dative | mercātōrī | mercātōribus |
| Accusative | mercātōrem | mercātōrēs |
| Ablative | mercātōre | mercātōribus |
| Vocative | mercātor | mercātōrēs |
Derived terms
- mercātōrius
Related terms
- mercābilis
- mercāns
- mercantia
- mercātiō
- mercātūra
- mercātus
- mercor
Descendants
- Old Portuguese: mercador
- Portuguese: mercador
See also
- mercālis
- mercēs
- merx
References
- “mercator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mercator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mercator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- mercator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette