Where does “mercato” come from?

mercato (Spanish) comes from Italian mercato, from Latin mercatus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

mercato (Spanish): transfer market

Definitions

  1. transfer market

Ancestry of “mercato”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianmercatomarket
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
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →