merchant是什么意思（merchant的用法）

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一、merchant是什么意思

1、merchant 商人，店主，零售商

2、来自法语mercheant,商人，来自拉丁语mercari,买卖，交易，词源同market.

二、merchant的用法

1、merchant

2、merchant: [13] Latin merx denoted ‘goods for sale’. From it was derived the verb mercārī ‘trade’ (whose past participle was the source of English market). Mercārī was adapted in Vulgar Latin to mercātāre, whose present participle mercātāns produced the Old French noun marcheant ‘trader’, source of English merchant. Merchandise [13] comes from a derivative of marcheant; and other English descendants of Latin merx are commerce and mercury.=> commerce, market, mercury

3、merchant (n.)

4、c. 1200, from Anglo-French marchaunt "merchant, shopkeeper" (Old French marcheant, Modern French marchand), from Vulgar Latin *mercatantem (nominative *mercatans) "a buyer," present participle of *mercatare, frequentative of Latin mercari "to trade, traffic, deal in" (see market). Meaning "fellow, chap" is from 1540s; with a specific qualifier, and suggesting someone who deals in it (such as speed merchant "one who enjoys fast driving"), from 1914.

5、merchant (adj.)

6、c. 1400, from merchant (n.) and from Old French marcheant (adj.).

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