merchantとは

語源

From Middle English marchant, from Old French marchant, from Latin mercans (“a buyer”), present participle of mercor (“trade, traffic, buy”), from merx (“merchandise, traffic”), itself probably ultimately deriving from Etruscan; see also mercy.

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɝtʃənt/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈmɜːtʃənt/
• ハイフネーション: mer‧chant
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃənt

名詞

merchant (複数形 merchants)

1. A person who traffics in commodities for profit.

   Synonym: trader

2. The owner or operator of a retail business.
3. A trading vessel; a merchantman.
   • 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, II. i. 5:

     Every day, some sailor's wife, / The masters of some merchant, and the merchant, / Have just our theme of woe.

4. (obsolete) A supercargo.

派生語

関連する語

• mercantile
• merchandise

動詞

merchant (三人称単数 現在形 merchants, 現在分詞 merchanting, 過去形および過去分詞形 merchanted)

1. As a resident of a region, to buy goods from a non-resident and sell them to another non-resident.

   a merchanting service

Further reading

• merchant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• merchant in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• “merchant” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.