mercare

mercare

1. inflection of mercar:
   1. first- and third-person singular pluperfect indicative
   2. first- and third-person singular imperfect preterite subjunctive

• IPA^(key): /merˈka.re/, [mer̺ˈkäːr̺e̞]
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: mer‧cà‧re

Borrowed from Latin mercārī, present active infinitive of mercor (“I trade, deal”).

mercare (obsolete)

1. (intransitive) to trade, to deal, to sell
   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XVI, lines 61–63, page 288:

     tal fatto è fiorentino e cambia e merca, ¶ che si sarebbe vòlto a Simifonti, ¶ là dove andava l'avolo a la cerca;

     Some who turn Florentines, and trade and discount, would have gone back again to Simifonte, there where their grandsires went about as beggars

   Synonym: mercanteggiare

2. (transitive) to buy, to purchase

   Synonyms: acquistare, comprare

3. (transitive) to trade, to deal

   Synonym: commerciare

4. (figuratively) to get, to obtain

   Pur lagrime e sospiri e dolor merco ― I only obtain tears, sighs and grief

   Synonym: procurarsi

• mercante
• mercato

Borrowed from Old Occitan mercar, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *markōną (“to mark; to notice”).

mercare

1. (central Italy, southern Italy) to brand (to mark cattle with as proofof ownership)

• merca

• mercare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

mercāre

1. second-person singular present active imperative and indicative of mercor

mercare

1. First-person singular (yo) future subjunctive form of mercar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) future subjunctive form of mercar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) future subjunctive form of mercar.