Etymology

mercantilely

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Today it means: In a mercantile manner or context. Full definition →

English mercantile ← French mercantile ← Italian mercantile
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The story

  1. Proto-Italic*merks
  2. Latinmerx
  3. Latinmercor
  4. Latinmercantem
  5. Italianmercante
  6. Italianmercantile
  7. Frenchmercantile
  8. Englishmercantile
  9. English todaymercantilely

From mercantile + -ly.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.