mercator

See also: Mercator

Latin

Alternative forms

• m͛cātor (Medieval scribal abbreviation)

Etymology

From mercor (“trade, deal in goods”) +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /merˈkaː.tor/, [mɛrˈkäːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /merˈka.tor/, [merˈkäːt̪or]

Noun

mercātor m (genitive mercātōris, feminine mercātrīx); third declension

1. merchant, trader, wholesale dealer
2. dealer, speculator

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mercātor	mercātōrēs
Genitive	mercātōris	mercātōrum
Dative	mercātōrī	mercātōribus
Accusative	mercātōrem	mercātōrēs
Ablative	mercātōre	mercātōribus
Vocative	mercātor	mercātōrēs

Derived terms

• mercātōrius

Related terms

• mercantia
• mercor
• mercābilis
• mercāns
• mercātiō
• mercātus
• mercātūra

 

Descendants

• Old Galician-Portuguese: mercador
• Portuguese: mercador

See also

• mercālis
• mercēs
• merx

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.