Latin

Alternative forms

• commircium
• conmercium

Noun

commercium n ‎(genitive commerciī); second declension

1. Trade, traffic, commerce, exchange.
2. (by extension) Intercourse, communication, correspondence, fellowship.
3. (metonymically) The right to trade as a merchant, mercantile right.
4. (metonymically) An article of trade; merchandise, wares.
5. (metonymically) A place of trade; marketplace.

Inflection

Second declension.

Synonyms

• (commerce): mercātūra, mercātus
• (merchandise): merx
• (marketplace): forum

Derived terms

• commerciālis
• commercior

Related terms

• mercālis
• merx

Descendants

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “commercium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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