Where does “mercadoria” come from?
mercadoria (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese Mercador, from Old Portuguese mercador, from Latin mercator, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.
mercadoria (Portuguese): merchandise; commodity; goods offered for sale
Definitions
- merchandise; commodity; goods offered for sale
Ancestry of “mercadoria”, step by step
mercadoria traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Portuguese Mercador
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | Mercador | merchant, dealer, chandler, tradesman |
| 2 | Old Portuguese | mercador | — |
| 3 | Latin | mercator | merchant, trader; dealer, speculator |
| 4 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
via Galician mercadura
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Galician | mercadura | — |