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mercimonium

merchandise, enterprise

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Mostellaria 3 · 3.12/10k
Persa 2 · 2.54/10k
Ad Uxorem 1 · 2.41/10k
Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 1 · 1.82/10k
Curculio 1 · 1.62/10k
Stichus 1 · 1.61/10k
Mercator 1 · 1.17/10k
Amphitruo 1 · 1.02/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

1. mercimonium — de Vaan

mercimonium 'merchandise, enterprise' (PL+); commers, -rcis 'friendly intercourse' (PL), commercari 'to buy' (PL+), commercium 'trade, relationship, sexual intercourse' (PL+), praemercan 'to buy in advance' (PL+); merces, -edis 'payment' (PL+), mercen(n)arius [adj./m.] 'working for pay; hired worker' (PL+), mercedimerus 'working for hire' (Lucil.); Mercurius 'the god Mercury' (AndrH-); Mercurialis 'of M/mercury' … — [de Vaan, s.v. mercimonium, p. 390]

2. mercĭmōnĭum — Lewis & Short

mercĭmōnĭum, ii, n.merx,

I goods, wares, merchandise (ante-class. and postAug.): in vostris mercimoniis Emundis vendundisque, Plaut. Am. prol. 1; id. Most. 3, 3, 9; 12: quid agit meum mercimonium apud te? id. Curc. 4, 4, 8: videre cupio nostrum mercimonium, Turp. ap. Non. 213, 8: per tabernas, quibus id mercimonium inerat, quo flamma alitur, Tac. A. 15, 38.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. mercimonium (scan pp. 390-391; entry #1041). Root candidates: *merk-.

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