mercante
Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /merˈkan.te/
- Rhymes: -ante
- Hyphenation: mer‧càn‧te
Noun
mercante m (plural mercanti, feminine mercantessa)
- merchant, dealer, trader, monger
- Synonyms: commerciante, (obsolete) mercatante, (obsolete) mercadante
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- mercante in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Latin
Participle
mercante
- ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of mercāns
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin mercantem. Cognate with Italian mercante and Spanish mercante.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /meʁˈkɐ̃.t͡ʃi/ [mehˈkɐ̃.t͡ʃi]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /meɾˈkɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /meʁˈkɐ̃.t͡ʃi/ [meχˈkɐ̃.t͡ʃi]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /meɻˈkɐ̃.te/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /mɨɾˈkɐ̃.tɨ/
- Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɐ̃t͡ʃi, (Portugal) -ɐ̃tɨ
- Hyphenation: mer‧can‧te
Adjective
mercante m or f (plural mercantes)
Noun
mercante m or f by sense (plural mercantes)
Synonyms
See also
Further reading
- “mercante”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “mercante”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “mercante”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
Anagrams
- cementar
- certâmen
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /meɾˈkante/ [meɾˈkãn̪.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -ante
- Syllabification: mer‧can‧te
Adjective
mercante m or f (masculine and feminine plural mercantes)
Noun
mercante m or f by sense (plural mercantes)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “mercante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024