Mercor, mercâris, mercâtus sum, mercâri; Deponens, Meieo, significat. To buy: to buy to the ende to sell for gaines. Ter. Si & ea mercatus esses quæ ego desyderabam, & ad eam summam quam volueram. Cic.Qui mercantur mercatoribus, quod statim vendant.Cic.Fundum mercatus est de pupillo.Cic.He bought a peece of lande of.Quem mercatus fuerat frater Thaidi.Terent.Which the brother bought for Thais.Amicam quiuis mercatur muneribus. Propert. Delicias mercatus sum.Stat. Equos mercari. Horat. Mercari magistratū pretio.Cic.To buye an office for money.Magno mercari aliquid.Virg.To buye deare or at an high price.Mercari præsenti pecunia. Plant. To buye for ready money.Mercatur minore pretio. Gel. Mercari sestertijs sexcentis. Colum. Mercari Græca fide.Plaut.To buye for ready money out of hand.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
mercātūra, ae, f. [mercor], trade, traffic, commerce (class.). I.Lit.: mercatura autem, si tenuis est, sordida putanda est; sin magna et copiosa, non est admodum vituperanda, Cic. Off. 1, 42, 151: mercaturas facere,
to follow the pursuits of trade
, id. Verr. 2, 5, 28, 72.—B.Trop.: ad quos cum tanquam ad mercaturam bonarum artium sis profectus, to the purchase of, etc., Cic. Off. 3, 2, 6: utilitatum, id. N. D. 1, 44, 122.—II.Transf., goods, wares, merchandise (ante-Aug.), Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 51.
mercor, ātus, 1 (archaic form, mercassitur for mercatus fuerit, Inscr. Grut. 512, 20.—Inf. mercarier for mercari, Hor. S. 2, 3, 24), v. dep. n. and a. [id.], to trade, traffic, deal in commodities (absol., Plaut. Merc. prol. 82), to buy, purchase something from a person (cf. nundinor). I.Lit., constr. with aliquid ab or de aliquo, with abl. or gen. of the price (class.): aliquid ab aliquo, Cic. Off. 1, 42, 150: fundum de pupillo, id. Fl. 20, 46: aliquid tanto pretio, id. Rosc. Am. 46, 133: hortos egregiasque domos, Hor. S. 2, 3, 24: quanti mercatura mullum luxuria?Plin. 9, 18, 31, 68: hanc (segetem), Juv. 14, 143.—In part. pres.: mercans, antis, subst., a buyer, purchaser: spem mercantium frustrari, Suet. Aug. 75.—II.Trop.: ego haec officia mercanda vitā puto,
to be purchased with life
, Cic. Att. 9, 5, 3: amorem muneribus, Prop. 2, 16 (3, 8), 15.—In pass. signif., to be bought (mostly post-Aug.): jam quidem facta emplastra mercantur, Plin. 34, 11, 25, 108.— Part. perf.: mercātus, a, um, bought, purchased: commeatibus mercatis, Sall. Fragm. ap. Non. 138, 12: cultus, Prop. 1, 2, 5: sestertiis centum quinquaginta milibus trullam unam mercatam a matrefamilias, Plin. 37, 2, 10, 29 (the better reading is mercatā matre, Jan.).