英単語

commerceの意味・使い方・発音

commerce

英 ['kɒmɜːs] 美 ['kɑmɝs]
  • n. 貿易、商業

英語の語源


commerce
commerce: [16] Commerce is etymologically related to market, merchandise, merchant, and mercury. It comes, perhaps via French commerce, from Latin commercium ‘trade’, a compound noun formed from the collective prefix com- ‘together’ and merx ‘merchandise’. The adjective commercial is 17th-century, its nominal use for ‘broadcast advertisement’ 20thcentury.
=> market, merchant, mercury
commerce (n.)
1530s, from Middle French commerce (14c.), from Latin commercium "trade, trafficking," from com- "together" (see com-) + merx (genitive mercis) "merchandise" (see market (n.)).

例文


1. There were notable jousts with the Secretary of Commerce .
とビジネス部長の間には明らかに競争がある。

2.leaders of industry and commerce
商工業界のリーダー

3.During the war,they laid an embargo on commerce with enemy countries.
戦時中、彼らは敵国との通商を禁止した。

4.The maketplace was where commerce was traditionally carried on.
この市場は伝統的な貿易場所です。

5. Commerce binds the two countries together.
貿易はこの両国を結びつけた。

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