Where does “market” come from?
Market comes from Old French market, from Latin mercatus meaning "trade or merchandise," derived from the past participle suffix -tus added to Latin merx meaning "goods or wares," which descended from Proto-Italic merk-.
market (English): A gathering of people for the purchase and sale...
Definitions
- A gathering of people for the purchase and sale...
Ancestry of “market”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | market | A market periodic public assembly for buying or selling |
| 2 | Old Norse | markaðr | market |
| 3 | Old Saxon | markat | — |
| 4 | Latin | marcātus | — |
| 5 | Latin | mercatus | trade, traffic, buying and selling; market,... |
| 6 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |