# mercar
## Aragonese
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin mercārī (“to trade”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /meɾˈka(ɾ)/
* Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
* Syllabification: mer‧car

### Verb

mercar
* to buy
    Synonym: crompar

#### Related terms

* mercador
* mercant
* mercato
* mercau

## Asturian
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *mercāre, from Latin mercārī (“to trade”).

### Verb

mercar (first-person singular indicative present merco, past participle mercáu)
* to buy
    Dí-y María que se merque un galluTell María to buy herself a rooster.

#### Related terms

* mercáu

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mercar (“to trade; to buy”), from Vulgar Latin *mercāre, from Latin mercārī (“to trade”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /meɾˈkaɾ/ [meɾˈkɑɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Hyphenation: mer‧car

### Verb

mercar (first-person singular present merco, first-person singular preterite merquei, past participle mercado)
* (dated) to trade
    Antes quero mercar, que rogar. ― I would rather trade than beg. (proverb)
** 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 637:Et nõ podemos mellor mercar ca en cõprar nosas uidas, ca bẽ ueedes que pouco nos podemos ia defender, se esta guerra muyto dura.And we can't trade better than by acquiring our lives, 'cos you know well that we can't almost defend ourselves, if this war takes much longer
* to buy
** 1433, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 97:Iten, ordenaron mays sobre rason das ollas que tragan os oleiros a vender a çidade a qual ordenança feseron en esta maneira: que qual quer ome de fora, oleyro, que trouxese ollas a vender a esta çidade, que as vendese por sy meesmo, ata seyda de mynsa grande, e que esteue con elas as vender por sy meesmo ata que o relogo dese des oras, e que regateyra nenhua que llas nos mercase ata las dez oras, su a pena que está ordenada por lo conçello, et pasente as ditas dez oras, que os olleyros e omees de fora que posan vender as ditas ollas á engrós a quaes quer pesonas que llas quiseren mercar, et as regateyras da dita çidade que llas posan mercar des las des oras endiante sen pena alguaItem, they ordered about the pots that potters bring to this city for selling, and this ordinance was made this way: that any foreigner, a potter, who brings pots for selling to this city, that they can sell them by themselves till exit of the main mass, and that they should stay with them till the clock strikes ten, and that no reseller could buy them till ten o´clock under the penalty set by the Council; and after ten o'clock that potters and foreigners can sell the aforementioned pots to anyone who would buy them, and that local resellers could buy these pots from them after ten o´clock without any penalty

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

#### Related terms

* mercado

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mercar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mercar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mercar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* “mercar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mercar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* “mercar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mercar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mercar (“to trade; to buy”), from Vulgar Latin *mercāre, from Latin mercārī (“to trade”), from merx (“merchandise”), possibly from Etruscan [Term?].

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /meʁˈka(ʁ)/ [mehˈka(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /meʁˈka(ʁ)/ [mehˈka(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /meɾˈka(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /meʁˈka(ʁ)/ [meχˈka(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /meɻˈka(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /mɨɾˈkaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /mɨɾˈkaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /mɨɾˈka.ɾi/

### Verb

mercar (first-person singular present merco, first-person singular preterite merquei, past participle mercado)
* to trade (to buy and sell goods)
    Synonyms: comerciar, comercializar, mercadejar

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

#### Related terms

* merca
* mercado

### Further reading

* “mercar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin mercārī (“to trade”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /meɾˈkaɾ/ [meɾˈkaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: mer‧car

### Verb

mercar (first-person singular present merco, first-person singular preterite merqué, past participle mercado)
* to buy
    Synonym: comprar

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Derived terms

* mercachifle

#### Related terms

* mercado
* mercador
* mercante

### Further reading

* “mercar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10