commercium
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]commercium
- A traditional academic feast, known and held at universities in most Central and Northern European countries.
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From con- (“together, with”) + merx (“merchandise”) or merces (“pay”) + -ium.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /komˈmer.ki.um/, [kɔmˈmɛrkiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /komˈmer.t͡ʃi.um/, [komˈmɛrt͡ʃium]
Noun
[edit]commercium n (genitive commerciī or commercī); second declension
- Trade, traffic, commerce, exchange.
- (by extension) Intercourse, communication, correspondence, fellowship.
- (metonymically) The right to trade as a merchant, mercantile right.
- (metonymically) An article of trade; merchandise, wares.
- Synonym: merx
- (metonymically) A place of trade; marketplace.
- Synonym: forum
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | commercium | commercia |
Genitive | commerciī commercī1 |
commerciōrum |
Dative | commerciō | commerciīs |
Accusative | commercium | commercia |
Ablative | commerciō | commerciīs |
Vocative | commercium | commercia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]Descendants
- Albanian: kumerq
- Asturian: comerciu
- Catalan: comerç
- Dutch: commercie
- English: commerce
- French: commerce
- → German: Kommerz
- Friulian: cumierç
- Galician: comercio
- Byzantine Greek: κομμέρκιον (kommérkion), κουμέρκιον (koumérkion)
- Italian: commercio
- Portuguese: comércio
- Romanian: comerț, comerciu
- Russian: комме́рция (kommércija)
- Sicilian: cummerciu
- → Maltese: kummerċ
- Spanish: comercio
- Venetian: comercio
References
[edit]- “commercium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “commercium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- commercium 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)
- commercium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- intercourse of speech: commercium linguae
- correspondence: epistularum commercium
- interchange of ideas; conversation: commercium loquendi et audiendi
- intercourse of speech: commercium linguae
- “commercium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “commercium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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