mercer

mercer

See also: Mercer

English

Mercers in Mughal India.

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman marcer, mercer (“merchant, textile merchant”), from merz (“commodity”) (from Latin merx).

Pronunciation

• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈmɚsɚ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈməːsə/

Noun

mercer (plural mercers)

1. A merchant dealing in fabrics and textiles, especially silks and other fine cloths.
   • 1600 (first performance)​, Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Revels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Ben Jonson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, OCLC 960101342:

     ... Acolastus-Polypragmon-Asotus, is here present (by the help of his mercer, tailor, milliner, sempster, and so forth) at his designed hour...

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], OCLC 560090630:

     He passed, dallying, the windows of Brown Thomas, silk mercers.

Translations

A merchant in fabrics and textiles

Catalan: mercer m, mercera f Finnish: silkkikauppias, kangaskauppias German: Händler (de) m, Stoffhändler m, Seidenwarenhändler m French: mercier (fr) m

See also

• haberdasher

Anagrams

• Cremer

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Catalan

Etymology

Either from Vulgar Latin *merciārius or from Old Catalan merç (“commodity”), both ultimately from Latin merx (“merchandise, goods”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /məɾˈse/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /mərˈse/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /meɾˈseɾ/

Noun

mercer m (plural mercers, feminine mercera)

1. mercer
2. haberdasher

Derived terms

• merceria

Further reading

• “mercer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Latin

Verb

mercer

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of mercor