Etymology

commerce

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Today it means: The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; especially the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic. Full definition →

Middle French commerce ← Latin commercium
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromcommercium
  2. Middle French · borrowed fromcommerce
  3. English todaycommerce

Borrowed from Middle French commerce, from Latin commercium. Doublet of comess. Displaced native Old English mangung.

Words from the same roots

Latincommercium all →

commercial

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