mercimonium

Latin

Etymology

merx (“merchandise, goods”) +‎ -mōnium (“obligation or collective suffix”)

Noun

mercimōnium n (genitive mercimōniī or mercimōnī); second declension

1. goods, wares, merchandise

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mercimōnium	mercimōnia
Genitive	mercimōniī mercimōnī1	mercimōniōrum
Dative	mercimōniō	mercimōniīs
Accusative	mercimōnium	mercimōnia
Ablative	mercimōniō	mercimōniīs
Vocative	mercimōnium	mercimōnia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Italian: mercimonio

References

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