commercium

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Noun

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commercium

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

Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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commercium n (genitive commerciī or commercī); second declension

  1. Trade, traffic, commerce, exchange.
    Synonyms: mercātūra, mercātus
  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.
    Synonym: merx
  5. (metonymically) A place of trade; marketplace.
    Synonym: forum

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case 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).

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References

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  • 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[1], 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