mercatus

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /merˈkaː.tus/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /merˈka.tus/,

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.

Related terms

Descendants

• Italian: mercato
  • → French: mercato
  • → Spanish: mercato
• Neapolitan: mercato
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: mercáu
• Old Occitan:
  • Occitan: mercat, merchat
  • Catalan: mercat
• Old Galician-Portuguese: mercado
  • Galician: mercado
  • Portuguese: mercado
• Old Spanish:
  • Ladino: merkado
  • Spanish: mercado
    • → Cebuano: merkado
    • → Waray-Waray: merkado
• Sardinian: mercadu, melcadu
• Sicilian: mircatu
• Venetian: mercà
• ⇒ Late Latin: marcātus
  • Old French: marchiet, marchié, markiet, market; marchiet
    • French: marché
    • Norman: marchi (Jersey, Guernsey)
    • → Old English: market
      • Middle English: market
        • English: market (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Occitan:
    • Occitan: marcat, marchat
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Friulian: marcjât, marčhât
    • Ladin: marcià
    • Romansch: martgà, marcau, marcho, marchà
  • Sardinian: malcadu, marcadu
  • Sicilian: mircatu
  • Venetian: marcà
  • → Old Breton: marchat
    • Breton: marc'had
  • → Old Dutch: *markat
    • Middle Dutch: market, marct
      • Dutch: markt
        • Afrikaans: mark
        • Negerhollands: markt, market
  • → Old Frisian: merked
    • West Frisian: merk
  • → Old High German: marchāt, markāt, marcāt, markat
    • Middle High German: market, markt, mart, merket, merk
      • Alemannic German: Märcht
      • Bavarian: Morkt
      • Central Franconian: Maat, Mart
      • German: Markt
      • Luxembourgish: Maart
      • Yiddish: מאַרק (mark)
  • → Old Norse: markaðr, marknaðr
    • Icelandic: markaður
    • Faroese: marknaður
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: marknad
    • Swedish: marknad
    • Danish: marked
      • Norwegian Bokmål: marked
    • → Old Breton: marchat
      • Middle Breton: marchat
        • Breton: marc'had
    • → Middle Cornish: marghas
    • → Old Irish: margad, marggad
      • Irish: margadh
      • Manx: margey
      • Scottish Gaelic: margadh
    • → Welsh: marchnad

See also

• mereō

Etymology 2

Participle

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

1. perfect passive participle of mercor

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

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.