commercium

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Noun

commercium

1. A traditional academic feast, known and held at universities in most Central and Northern European countries.

Latin

Alternative forms

• commircium, conmercium

Etymology

From con- (“together, with”) + merx (“merchandise”) or merces (“pay”) + -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔmˈmɛr.ki.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [komˈmɛr.t͡ʃi.um]

Noun

commercium n (genitive commerciī or commercī); second declension

1. Trade, traffic, commerce, exchange.

   Synonyms: mercātūra, mercātus

2. (by extension) Intercourse, communication, correspondence, fellowship.
3. (metonymic) The right to trade as a merchant, mercantile right.
4. (metonymic) An article of trade; merchandise, wares.

   Synonym: merx

5. (metonymic) A place of trade; marketplace.

   Synonym: forum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	commercium	commercia
genitive	commerciī commercī1	commerciōrum
dative	commerciō	commerciīs
accusative	commercium	commercia
ablative	commerciō	commerciīs
vocative	commercium	commercia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• commerciālis
• commercior

Related terms

• mercālis
• merx

Descendants

Descendants

• Albanian: kumerq
• Asturian: comerciu
• Catalan: comerç
• Dutch: commercie
• English: commerce
• French: commerce
  • → German: Kommerz
• Friulian: cumierç
• Galician: comercio
• Byzantine Greek: κομμέρκιον (kommérkion), κουμέρκιον (koumérkion)
  • Greek: κουμέρκι (koumérki)
  • Ottoman Turkish: كمرك (gümrük) (see there for further descendants)
• Italian: commercio
• Portuguese: comércio
• Romanian: comerț, comerciu
• Russian: комме́рция (kommércija)
• Sicilian: cummerciu
  • → Maltese: kummerċ
• Spanish: comercio
• Venetan: comercio

References

• “commercium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “commercium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "commercium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “commercium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • intercourse of speech: commercium linguae
    
  • correspondence: epistularum commercium
    
  • interchange of ideas; conversation: commercium loquendi et audiendi
    
• “commercium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “commercium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin