Where does “mercante” come from?

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

mercante (Portuguese): merchant

Definitions

  1. merchant

Ancestry of “mercante”, step by step

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

Words derived from “mercante”

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