Etymology

unmercantile

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Today it means: Not mercantile. Full definition →

English mercantile ← French mercantile ← Italian mercantile
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Proto-Italic*merks
  9. Latinmerx
  10. Latinmercor
  11. Latinmercantem
  12. Italianmercante
  13. Italianmercantile
  14. Frenchmercantile
  15. Englishmercantile
  16. English todayunmercantile

From un- + mercantile.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.