mercantile

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English

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Etymology

Borrowed from French mercantile, from Italian mercantile, from mercante (“merchant”), from Latin mercāns (“trading”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɜːkənˌtaɪl/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈmɝ.kənˌtaɪl/, /-ˌtil/
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Adjective

mercantile (not comparable)

  1. (economics) Concerned with the exchange of goods for profit.
    • 1872, [Thomas Hardy], “II. A Meeting of the Choir”, in Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School, volume I, London: Tinsley Brothers, →OCLC, part II, page 139:
      No sign was over his door; in fact—as with old banks and mercantile houses—advertising in any shape was scorned, and it would have been felt as beneath his dignity to paint, for the benefit of strangers, the name of an establishment the trade of which came solely by connection based on personal respect.
  2. (economics) Of or relating to mercantilism.

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French

Pronunciation

Adjective

mercantile (plural mercantiles)

  1. mercantile, commercial

Descendants

  • → Romanian: mercantil

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

From mercante +‎ -ile.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mer.kanˈti.le/
  • Rhymes: -ile
  • Hyphenation: mer‧can‧tì‧le

Adjective

mercantile (plural mercantili)

  1. (relational) merchant; mercantile, commercial
    Synonym: commerciale
    marina mercantile ― merchant navy

Derived terms

Noun

mercantile m (plural mercantili)

  1. (nautical) merchant ship
  2. (nautical) cargo vessel
  3. (nautical) freighter
  4. (nautical) merchantman

Further reading

  • mercantile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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