The corpus record — Latin

mercator

mercator · m

a trader, merchant

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Where it lives

Asinaria 40 · 49.51/10k
Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites 3 · 4.5/10k
Cum Populo Gratias Egit 1 · 3.79/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
Cum Senatui Gratias Egit 1 · 2.31/10k
Carmina 3 · 2.26/10k
In P. Vatinium testem interrogatio 1 · 2.23/10k
De bello Gallico 11 · 2.14/10k
Satyrarum libri 3 · 2.11/10k
Menaechmi 2 · 2.11/10k
Epistulae 2 · 2.02/10k

Densest 12 of 49 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

mercātor — Lewis & Short

mercātor, ōris, m.id.,

I a trader, merchant, esp. a wholesale dealer (opp. to caupo, a retailer; class.).

I Lit.: venalicii mercatoresque, Cic. Or. 70, 232: multi ad eos mercatores ventitant, Caes. B. G. 4, 3. —

II Transf.

A A dealer, speculator: non consules, sed mercatores provinciarum, Cic. post Red. in Sen. 4, 10.—Rarely of a petty dealer: vilis sacci mercator olentis, Juv. 14, 269.—

B A buyer, purchaser: signorum, Cic. Verr. 1, 20, 60: veneni, Juv. 13, 154.

Where it came from

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