The story
- Latin · borrowed frommangōnizō“to adorn wares for sale”
- English todaymangonize
Borrowed from Latin mangōnizō (“to adorn wares for sale”), from mangō (“dealer who adorns his wares to make them look more valuable”) (the source of English monger) + -izō (“-ize”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.