different between merchaunt vs merchant
merchaunt
English
Noun
merchaunt (plural merchaunts)
- Obsolete form of merchant.
merchaunt From the web:
merchant
English
Alternative forms
- merchaunt (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English marchant, from Old French marchant, from Latin mercans (“a buyer”), present participle of mercor (“trade, traffic, buy”), from merx (“merchandise, traffic”), itself probably ultimately deriving from Etruscan; see also mercy.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?m?t??nt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m??t??nt/
- Hyphenation: mer?chant
- Rhymes: -??(?)t??nt
Noun
merchant (plural merchants)
- A person who traffics in commodities for profit.
- Synonym: trader
- The owner or operator of a retail business.
- A trading vessel; a merchantman.
- 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, II. i. 5:
- Every day, some sailor's wife, / The masters of some merchant, and the merchant, / Have just our theme of woe.
- 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, II. i. 5:
- (obsolete) A supercargo.
Derived terms
Related terms
- mercantile
- merchandise
Translations
Verb
merchant (third-person singular simple present merchants, present participle merchanting, simple past and past participle merchanted)
- As a resident of a region, to buy goods from a non-resident and sell them to another non-resident.
- a merchanting service
Further reading
- merchant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- merchant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- “merchant” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
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