mercatura

Latin

Noun

mercātūra f (genitive mercātūrae); first declension

1. trade, commerce
   • c. 106-43 B.C.E., Marcus Tullius Cicero, In Verrem, 2.5.72

     qui a praedonibus erant capti, cum mercaturas facerent aut aliquam ob causam navigarent, sua voluntate cum piratis fuisse arguebat.

     who had been taken by pirates, while they were engaged in commerce, or else sailing with some other object, he accused of having been with the pirates of their own free will.

2. goods, merchandise
   • c. 254-184 B.C.E., Plautus, Trinummus, 2.2.51

     mercaturan, an venales habuit ubi rem perdidit?

     Had he merchandise or wares to sell, when he lost his property?

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mercātūra	mercātūrae
Genitive	mercātūrae	mercātūrārum
Dative	mercātūrae	mercātūrīs
Accusative	mercātūram	mercātūrās
Ablative	mercātūrā	mercātūrīs
Vocative	mercātūra	mercātūrae

References

• “mercatura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mercatura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mercatura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be engaged in commerce, wholesale business: mercaturam facere