Where does “marketplace” come from?
Marketplace derives from Old French market, from Latin mercatus (a market or trade), built on Latin merx (goods or wares) from Proto-Indo-European pelh₂-.
marketplace (English): An open area in a town housing a public market;...
Definitions
- An open area in a town housing a public market;...
Ancestry of “marketplace”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | market | A gathering of people for the purchase and sale... |
| 2 | Middle English | market | — |
| 3 | Old Norse | markaðr | market |
| 4 | Old Saxon | markat | — |
| 5 | Latin | marcātus | — |
| 6 | Latin | mercatus | trade, traffic, buying and selling; market,... |
| 7 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |
Words derived from “marketplace”