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Latin
- m͛cātor (Medieval scribal abbreviation)
Etymology
From mercor (“trade, deal in goods”) + -tor.
Pronunciation
Noun
mercātor m (genitive mercātōris, feminine mercātrīx); third declension
- merchant, trader, wholesale dealer
- dealer, speculator
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
See also
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.