merchant

• n. 商人, 問屋; 店主
• adj.商業、商人
• n. （商人）人名; （英）McCants

フランス語のmercheant「商人」から。ラテン語のmercari「売買、取引」が語源で、語源的にはmarketと同じ。

merchant

merchant: [13] Latin merx denoted ‘goods for sale’. From it was derived the verb mercārī ‘trade’ (whose past participle was the source of English market). Mercārī was adapted in Vulgar Latin to mercātāre, whose present participle mercātāns produced the Old French noun marcheant ‘trader’, source of English merchant. Merchandise [13] comes from a derivative of marcheant; and other English descendants of Latin merx are commerce and mercury.
=> commerce, market, mercury

merchant (n.)

c. 1200, from Anglo-French marchaunt "merchant, shopkeeper" (Old French marcheant, Modern French marchand), from Vulgar Latin *mercatantem (nominative *mercatans) "a buyer," present participle of *mercatare, frequentative of Latin mercari "to trade, traffic, deal in" (see market). Meaning "fellow, chap" is from 1540s; with a specific qualifier, and suggesting someone who deals in it (such as speed merchant "one who enjoys fast driving"), from 1914.

merchant (adj.)

c. 1400, from merchant (n.) and from Old French marcheant (adj.).

1. The ride was smooth until they got into the merchant ship 's wake.

彼らが商船の後流にぶつかるまで順調に航行していた。

2. "How many times have I heard that before?「 Merchant complained angrily.

「何度聞いたことがあるの？」とマッキントッシュは怒って文句を言った。

3.They sent naval forces to protect merchant shipping.

彼らは海軍保護商船を派遣した。

4.The new merchant class was anxious for acceptance by the old nobility.

新興のビジネス階層は旧貴族の受け入れを渇望している。

5.The land is in the possession of the merchant .

この土地はその商人の所有物です。