Where does “mercantile” come from?

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

mercantile (Italian): merchant; mercantile, commercial

Definitions

  1. merchant; mercantile, commercial

Ancestry of “mercantile”, step by step

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

Words derived from “mercantile”

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