Where does “mercado” come from?

mercado (Portuguese) comes from Old Portuguese mercado, from Latin mercatus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

mercado (Portuguese): market

Definitions

  1. market

Ancestry of “mercado”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Portuguesemercado—
2Latinmercatustrade, traffic, buying and selling; market,...
3Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
4Proto-Italic-tus—
5Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

Words derived from “mercado”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →Every word from Latin -tus →Every word from Latin mercatus →
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