Etymology

mercantilistic

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Today it means: Relating to, or characteristic of mercantilism. 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 todaymercantilistic

From mercantile + -istic.

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