comerciant

Catalan

Etymology 1

From comerciar +‎ -ant.

Adjective

comerciant m or f (masculine and feminine plural comerciants)

1. (relational) trade, selling, business

   Synonym: negociant

Related terms

• comercial

Noun

comerciant m (plural comerciants, feminine comercianta, feminine plural comerciantes)

1. businessperson, trader, seller, dealer

Derived terms

• comerciantalla

Further reading

• “comerciant”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “comerciant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “comerciant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “comerciant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Etymology 2

Verb

comerciant

1. gerund of comerciar

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian commerciante, French commerçant. By surface analysis, comerciu +‎ -ant.

Noun

comerciant m (plural comercianți, feminine equivalent comerciantă)

1. dealer, tradesman, trader, shopkeeper

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	comerciant	comerciantul		comercianți	comercianții
genitive-dative	comerciant	comerciantului		comercianți	comercianților
vocative	comerciantule			comercianților

See also

• negustor