mercat

English

Etymology 1

From Latin mercātus. See market.

Noun

mercat (plural mercats)

1. (obsolete) Market; trade.
   • December 22 1678, Thomas Sprat, A Sermon Preached before the King at White-Hall

     With irresistible majesty and authority our Saviour removed the exchange, and drove the mercat out of the temple.

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch meercatte.

Noun

mercat (plural mercats)

1. Obsolete form of meerkat.

Etymology 3

From mer- +‎ cat.

Noun

mercat (plural mercats)

1. A mermaid cat.
   • 1992, Aurelia Gomez, “Papier-mâché Mermaids”, in Crafts of Many Cultures: 30 Authentic Craft Projects from Around the World, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 22:

     You can also open this project up to encompass other mercreatures, such as merdogs, mercats, or merdeer.

   • 1995, Anna Fienberg, “The Mermaid with Wild Yellow Hair”, in Madeline the Mermaid, Allen & Unwin, published 2010, →ISBN, page 1:

     Madeline lived in a conch shell with her merdog called Byron and her mercat called Bella.

   • 2012, Richard Dungworth, “Mercats and Hairbrushes”, in Mrs Greene, Mermaid Queen, Ladybird Books, →ISBN:

     ‘To be honest, being a mercat – even a royal one – isn’t my thing. Cat and fish don’t mix. I keep wanting to eat my own fish tail. It’s very tiresome!’

   • 2018, Sibéal Pounder, “Hilma on the Chomp”, in Bad Mermaids: On the Rocks, Bloomsbury, →ISBN:

     ‘The mercats like the mulch!’ one of the little mermaids said, as the whole lot of them wriggled out of the seaweed basket and dived into the stuff.

References

• “mercat”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “mercat”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Carmet, Mec Art

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan mercat, from Latin mercātus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [mərˈkat]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [meɾˈkat]

• Audio:

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• Homophone: marcat (Balearic, Central)

Noun

mercat m (plural mercats)

1. market

Derived terms

• mercader
• mercat lliure
• mercat negre
• supermercat

Further reading

• “mercat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mercat”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “mercat” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mercat” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Verb

mercat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of mercō

Occitan

Alternative forms

• marcat (Gascon)
• marchat, merchat (Limousin)

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

mercat m (plural mercats)

1. (Languedoc) market

Scots

Alternative forms

• markeet, market, mercate, mercatt, mercet, mercket

Noun

mercat (plural mercats)

1. market

References

• “mercat” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.