mercare

mercare

1. inflection of mercar:
   1. first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative
   2. first/third-person singular imperfect preterite subjunctive

• IPA^(key): /merˈka.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: mer‧cà‧re

Borrowed from Latin mercārī (“to trade, deal”).

mercàre (first-person singular present mèrco, first-person singular past historic mercài, past participle mercàto, auxiliary avére) (archaic)

1. (intransitive) to trade, to deal, to haggle

   Synonym: mercanteggiare

   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XVI, page 288, lines 61–63:

     tal fatto è fiorentino e cambia e merca, ¶ che si sarebbe vòlto a Simifonti, ¶ là dove andava l'avolo a la cerca;

     Some who turn Florentines, and trade and discount, would have gone back again to Simifonte, there where their grandsires went about as beggars

2. (transitive) to buy, to purchase

   Synonyms: acquistare, comprare

3. (transitive) to trade, to deal

   Synonym: commerciare

4. (figurative) to get, to obtain

   Synonym: procurarsi

   • Pur lagrime e sospiri e dolor merco ― I only obtain tears, sighs and grief

• mercare¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Borrowed from Old Occitan mercar, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *markōną (“to mark; to notice”).

mercàre (first-person singular present mèrco, first-person singular past historic mercài, past participle mercàto, auxiliary avére)

1. (transitive, central-southern Italy) to brand (to mark cattle with as proofof ownership)

• mercare² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• cremare, cremerà

mercāre

1. second-person singular present active imperative/indicative of mercor

mercare

1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of mercar