Noun: mercader
Gender: m
Sample Sentences
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—Dime, amigo, ¿para qué serías tú bueno?
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—¡Ay hombre bueno!—dixo él—, ¿y quién vos dixo mi nombre?
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—¿Y cómo?—dixo el mercader—, ¿Amigo te dizen?
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—Amigo—dixo él—me dizen.
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—Plázeme—dixo el mercader. ("Tell me, amigo, what are you good at?"
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"Oh, my good man," he said, "who told you my name?"
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"What do you mean?" said the merchant, "Is Amigo your name?"
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"It is Amigo," said he.
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"I like that," said the merchant.) [ca. 1300, anonymous, Libro del cavallero Cifar f. 94v (ed. by Juan Manuel Cacho Blecua, pub. by Universidad de Zaragoza, 2003)]
Nouns inflected like mercader
sennor,
sastre,
estrellero,
arçobispado,
guarnimiento,
bezahar,
bezerro,
ysmael,
lenguage,
ivierno,
culuebro,
peligro,
culantro,
sacerdot,
mercader,
zebech,
blancor,
palafre,
ponient,
poderio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Catalan mercader, the native formation being mercadero.
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