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mercantile
1640s, via Fr., It., and M.L.
mercantile
, from L.
mercantem
(nom.
mercans
) "a merchant," also "trading," prp. of
mercari
"to trade," from
merx
(see
market
).
Mercantile system
first appears in Adam Smith (1776).
