mercader
See also: Mercader
Catalan
Pronunciation
Derived terms
Descendants
- Spanish: mercader
Further reading
- “mercader” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “mercader”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “mercader” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “mercader” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Old Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Catalan mercader, the native formation being mercadero.
Noun
mercader m (plural mercaders)
- merchant (person who traffics in commodities for profit)
- ca. 1300, anonymous, Libro del cavallero Cifar f. 94v, (ed. by Juan Manuel Cacho Blecua, pub. by Universidad de Zaragoza, 2003):
- —Dime, amigo, ¿para qué serías tú bueno?
—¡Ay hombre bueno!—dixo él—, ¿y quién vos dixo mi nombre?
—¿Y cómo?—dixo el mercader—, ¿Amigo te dizen?
—Amigo—dixo él—me dizen.
—Plázeme—dixo el mercader.- "Tell me, amigo, what are you good at?"
"Oh, my good man," he said, "who told you my name?"
"What do you mean?" said the merchant, "Is Amigo your name?"
"It is Amigo," said he.
"I like that," said the merchant.
- "Tell me, amigo, what are you good at?"
- —Dime, amigo, ¿para qué serías tú bueno?
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish mercader.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /meɾkaˈdeɾ/ [meɾ.kaˈð̞eɾ]
- Rhymes: -eɾ
- Syllabification: mer‧ca‧der
Noun
mercader m (plural mercaderes, feminine mercader or mercadera, feminine plural mercaderes or mercaderas)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “mercader”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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