mercor
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From merx.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈmɛr.kɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmɛr.kor]
Verb
[edit]mercor (present infinitive mercārī or mercārier, perfect active mercātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
- to trade, deal, sell
- Nam ut cuiusque studium ex aetāte flāgrābat, aliīs scorta praebēre, aliīs canēs atque equōs mercārī.
- As the passions of each, according to his years, appeared excited, he furnished mistresses to some, bought horses and dogs for others.
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of mercor (first conjugation, deponent)
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | mercor | mercāris, mercāre |
mercātur | mercāmur | mercāminī | mercantur | ||||||
| imperfect | mercābar | mercābāris, mercābāre |
mercābātur | mercābāmur | mercābāminī | mercābantur | |||||||
| future | mercābor | mercāberis, mercābere |
mercābitur | mercābimur | mercābiminī | mercābuntur | |||||||
| perfect | mercātus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
| pluperfect | mercātus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
| future perfect | mercātus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
| sigmatic future1 | mercāssor | mercāsseris | mercāssitur | — | — | — | |||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | mercer | mercēris, mercēre |
mercētur | mercēmur | mercēminī | mercentur | ||||||
| imperfect | mercārer | mercārēris, mercārēre |
mercārētur | mercārēmur | mercārēminī | mercārentur | |||||||
| perfect | mercātus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||||||||
| pluperfect | mercātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | — | mercāre | — | — | mercāminī | — | ||||||
| future | — | mercātor | mercātor | — | — | mercantor | |||||||
| non-finite forms | infinitive | participle | |||||||||||
| active | passive | active | passive | ||||||||||
| present | mercārī, mercārier2 |
— | mercāns | — | |||||||||
| future | mercātūrum esse | — | mercātūrus | mercandus | |||||||||
| perfect | mercātum esse | — | mercātus | — | |||||||||
| future perfect | mercātum fore | — | — | — | |||||||||
| perfect potential | mercātūrum fuisse | — | — | — | |||||||||
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||||||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||||||||
| mercandī | mercandō | mercandum | mercandō | mercātum | mercātū | ||||||||
1At least one use of the Old Latin "sigmatic future" tense is attested, which is used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, and, as the verb is deponent, takes the form of what would otherwise be the rare sigmatic future passive indicative tense (which is not attested in the plural for any verb).
2The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “mercor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mercor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mercor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.