mercatus

== Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [mɛrˈkaː.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [merˈkaː.tus] === Etymology 1 === From mercor (“to trade, traffic, deal”) + -tus (action noun suffix). ==== Noun ==== mercātus m (genitive mercātūs); fourth declension trade, traffic, buying and selling market, marketplace Synonym: macellum festival assemblage, public feast ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. ===== Related terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== ==== See also ==== mereō === Etymology 2 === Active and passive perfect participle of mercor (“to trade, sell”). ==== Participle ==== mercātus (feminine mercāta, neuter mercātum); first/second-declension participle having traded having been traded ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. === References === === Further reading === “mercatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “mercatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "mercatus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “mercatus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.