# commercial
## English
### Etymology

From commerce +‎ -ial. From French commercial (“of, or pertaining to commerce”), from Late Latin commercialis, from Latin commercium.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /kəˈmɜːʃəl/
* (General American) IPA: /kəˈmɝʃəl/
** Audio (General American):(file)

### Noun

commercial (plural commercials)
* An advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.
    She was in a commercial for breakfast cereal.
* (finance) A commercial trader, as opposed to an individual speculator.
* (obsolete) A commercial traveller.
** 1875, George Worsley, Advice to the Young!, page 32:I have more than once had to lend a commercial money to pay his fare home; as he had played shell-out and lost the lot.
** 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:Five persons went to the house after the milkman was gone, and that there Arab party was safe inside, — three of them was commercials, that I know, because afterwards they came to me.
* (slang) A male prostitute.
** 1972, Alfred Eustace Parker, The Berkeley Police Story, page 133:Tom said that homosexuals hate “commercials,” male prostitutes, and if the homosexual was drunk and angry, he might have committed murder.
** 1987, Paul William Mathews, Male Prostitution: Two Monographs, page 39:With the commercials there is no intensity of feeling and no later animosity; there is emotional and sexual fakery, but no prolonged post-sexual bargaining. […] Paradoxically these boys dissociate themselves from the commercials, yet engage in prostitution only when they require the money.

#### Hypernyms

* advertisement

#### Hyponyms

* infomercial

#### Derived terms

* commercial break
* documercial
* e-commercial
* fictomercial
* infomercial
* intromercial

#### Translations
### Adjective

commercial (comparative more commercial, superlative most commercial)
* Of or pertaining to commerce.
** 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:A two minutes' walk brought Warwick--the name he had registered under, and as we shall call him--to the market-house, the central feature of Patesville, from both the commercial and the picturesque points of view.
* (aviation) Designating an airport that serves passenger and/or cargo flights.
* (aviation) Designating such an airplane flight.

#### Derived terms

* aerocommercial
* anticommercial
* asset-backed commercial paper
* commercial at
* commercial bank
* commercial banking
* commercialese
* commercial invoice
* commercialise
* commercialism
* commercialist
* commerciality
* commercial law
* commercial letter of credit
* commercially
* commercial model
* commercial off-the-shelf
* commercial paper
* commercial room
* countercommercial
* e-commercial
* non-commercial
* noncommercial
* politicocommercial
* resimercial
* semicommercial
* supercommercial
* ultracommercial
* uncommercial

#### Translations
### Related terms

* commerce
* commercialize
* precommercial

### Further reading

* “commercial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “commercial”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

## French
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin commerciālis. By surface analysis, commerce +‎ -ial.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔ.mɛʁ.sjal/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: commerciale, commerciales

### Adjective

commercial (feminine commerciale, masculine plural commerciaux, feminine plural commerciales)
* commercial

#### Derived terms

* centre commercial
* commercialement
* fonds commercial
* guerre commerciale
* marque commerciale

### Noun

commercial m (plural commerciaux)
* a salesman, sales representative

### Further reading

* “commercial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Portuguese
### Noun

commercial m (plural commerciaes or commerciais)
* Obsolete spelling of comercial.

### Adjective

commercial m or f (plural commerciaes or commerciais)
* Obsolete spelling of comercial.