mercare
See also: mercaré
Asturian
Verb
(deprecated template usage) mercare
- inflection of mercar:
Italian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin mercārī, present active infinitive of mercor (“I trade, deal”).
Verb
mercare (obsolete)
- (intransitive) to trade, to deal, to sell
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XVI, page 288, lines 61–63:
- tal fatto è fiorentino e cambia e merca, ¶ che si sarebbe vòlto a Simifonti, ¶ là dove andava l'avolo a la cerca;
- Some who turn Florentines, and trade and discount, would have gone back again to Simifonte, there where their grandsires went about as beggars
- Synonym: mercanteggiare
- (transitive) to buy, to purchase
- Synonyms: acquistare, comprare
- (transitive) to trade, to deal
- Synonym: commerciare
- (figurative) to get, to obtain
- Pur lagrime e sospiri e dolor merco ― I only obtain tears, sighs and grief
- Synonym: procurarsi
Inflection
Related terms
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Old Occitan mercar, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *markōną (“to mark; to notice”).
Verb
mercare
- (central Italian, southern Italian) to brand (to mark cattle with as proofof ownership)
Inflection
Derived terms
References
- mercare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) mercāre
Spanish
Verb
mercare
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