commercial

English

Etymology

commerce +‎ -ial. From French commercial (“of, or pertaining to commerce”), from Late Latin commercialis, from Latin commercium.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈmɜːʃəl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəˈmɝʃəl/

  • Audio (GA)

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Noun

commercial (plural commercials)

1. An advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.
2. (finance) A commercial trader, as opposed to an individual speculator.

Hypernyms

• advertisement

Hyponyms

• infomercial

Translations

advertisement in a common media format

• Arabic: إِعْلَان تِجَارِيّ m (ʔiʕlān tijāriyy)
• Armenian: գովազդ (hy) (govazd)
• Bulgarian: рекла́ма (bg) f (rekláma)
• Catalan: anunci m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 廣告／广告 (zh) (guǎnggào), 广告 (zh) (guǎnggào)

• Czech: reklama (cs) f
• Danish: reklame (da) c
• Dutch: reclamespot (nl)
• Faroese: lýsing f
• Finnish: mainos (fi)
• French: publicité (fr) f
• Galician: anuncio m
• German: Werbung (de) f
• Greek: διαφήμιση (el) f (diafímisi)
• Hebrew: פִּרְסוֹמֶת (he) f (pirsómet)
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• Hungarian: reklám (hu)
• Japanese: コマーシャル (komāsharu), シーエム (shīemu), ＣＭ (shīemu)
• Macedonian: рекла́ма f (rekláma), ЕПП n (EPP)
• Malay: iklan
• Norwegian: reklame m, annonse m
• Persian: آگهی بازرگانی (âgahi ye bâzargâni), آنونس (ânons)
• Polish: reklama (pl) f
• Portuguese: anúncio (pt) m, comercial (pt) m, propaganda (pt) f
• Romanian: reclamă (ro) f
• Russian: рекла́ма (ru) f (rekláma)
• Slovak: reklama f
• Spanish: anuncio (es) m, comercial (es) m
• Turkish: reklam (tr)
• Ukrainian: рекла́ма (uk) f (rekláma)

Adjective

commercial (comparative more commercial, superlative most commercial)

1. Of or pertaining to commerce.
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     A two minutes' walk brought Warwick--the name he had registered under, and as we shall call him--to the market-house, the central feature of Patesville, from both the commercial and the picturesque points of view.

2. (aviation) Designating an airport that serves passenger and/or cargo flights.
3. (aviation) Designating such an airplane flight.

Translations

of or pertaining to commerce

• Arabic: تِجَارِيّ (tijāriyy)
• Armenian: առեւտրային (aṙewtrayin)
• Bulgarian: комерсиален (bg) (komersialen), търговски (tǎrgovski)
• Catalan: comercial (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 商業／商业 (zh) (shāngyè), 商业 (zh) (shāngyè)

• Czech: obchodní (cs), komerční (cs)
• Danish: handels-, erhvervs-, kommerciel (da)
• Dutch: commercieel (nl)
• Esperanto: komerca
• Finnish: kaupallinen (fi)
• French: commercial (fr)
• Galician: comercial m or f
• German: kommerziell (de)
• Greek: εμπορικός (el) (emporikós)

  Ancient: ἐμπορικός (emporikós)

• Hebrew: מסחרי (miskhari)
• Hindi: वाणिज्यिक (vāṇijyik)
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• Hungarian: kereskedelmi (hu)
• Italian: commerciale (it)
• Japanese: 商業の (ja) (しょうぎょうの, shōgyō no)
• Latvian: tirdzniecisks, veikalniecisks
• Macedonian: стопански m (stopanski), трговски m (trgovski), комерција́лен m (komercijálen)
• Malay: perdagangan, komersil
• Maori: arumoni
• Persian: تجاری (fa) (tejâri)
• Polish: komercyjny (pl)
• Portuguese: comercial (pt)
• Romanian: comercial (ro) m or n, comercială f
• Russian: торго́вый (ru) (torgóvyj), комме́рческий (ru) (kommérčeskij)
• Serbo-Croatian: komercijalan (sh), trgovački (sh)
• Spanish: comercial (es)
• Tagalog: kalakalin
• Ukrainian: комерційний (uk) (komercijnyj)

Related terms

• commerce
• commercialize
• precommercial

Further reading

• “commercial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “commercial”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin commerciālis, from Latin commercium; equivalent to commerce +‎ -ial

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.mɛʁ.sjal/

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• Homophones: commerciale, commerciales

Adjective

commercial (feminine commerciale, masculine plural commerciaux, feminine plural commerciales)

1. commercial

Noun

commercial m (plural commerciaux)

1. a salesman, sales representative

Further reading

• “commercial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Portuguese

Noun

commercial m (plural commerciaes or commerciais)

1. Obsolete spelling of comercial

Adjective

commercial m or f (plural commerciaes or commerciais)

1. Obsolete spelling of comercial