Where does “mercantile” come from?

mercantile (French) comes from Italian mercantile, from Italian mercante, from Latin mercans, from Latin mercor, from Latin merx, from Proto-Italic *merks.

mercantile (French): mercantile, commercial

Definitions

  1. mercantile, commercial

Ancestry of “mercantile”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianmercantilemerchant; mercantile, commercial
2Italianmercantemerchant, dealer, trader, monger
3Latinmercanstrading
4LatinmercorI trade, deal, sell
5Latinmerxmerchandise, commodity; goods, wares
6Proto-Italic*merks—

Words derived from “mercantile”

Every word from Proto-Italic *merks →Every word from Latin merx →Every word from Latin mercor →