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English
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Etymology
[edit]From Anglo-Norman marcer, mercer (“merchant, textile merchant”), from merz (“commodity”) (from Latin merx).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mercer (plural mercers)
- A merchant dealing in fabrics and textiles, especially silks and other fine cloths.
- 1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:
- ... Acolastus-Polypragmon-Asotus, is here present (by the help of his mercer, tailor, milliner, sempster, and so forth) at his designed hour...
- 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
- He passed, dallying, the windows of Brown Thomas, silk mercers.
Translations
[edit]A merchant in fabrics and textiles
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[edit]Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Either from Vulgar Latin *merciārius or from Old Catalan merç (“commodity”), both ultimately from Latin merx (“merchandise, goods”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mercer m (plural mercers, feminine mercera)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “mercer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]mercer
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