mercatus

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Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From mercor (“I trade, traffic, deal”) +‎ -tus (action noun suffix).

Noun

mercātus m (genitive mercātūs); fourth declension

  1. trade, traffic, buying and selling
  2. market, marketplace
  3. festival assemblage, public feast
Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative mercātus mercātūs
genitive mercātūs mercātuum
dative mercātuī mercātibus
accusative mercātum mercātūs
ablative mercātū mercātibus
vocative mercātus mercātūs
Descendants

See also

Etymology 2

Participle

mercātus (feminine mercāta, neuter mercātum); first/second-declension participle

  1. perfect passive participle of mercor
Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative mercātus mercāta mercātum mercātī mercātae mercāta
genitive mercātī mercātae mercātī mercātōrum mercātārum mercātōrum
dative mercātō mercātae mercātō mercātīs
accusative mercātum mercātam mercātum mercātōs mercātās mercāta
ablative mercātō mercātā mercātō mercātīs
vocative mercāte mercāta mercātum mercātī mercātae mercāta

References

  • “mercatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “mercatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • mercatus 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)
  • mercatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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