merchandise
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Anglo-Norman marchaundisebor.
Latin mercātus
Vulgar Latin *mercātāntem
Vulgar Latin *mercātāntem
Old French marcheant
Old French -ise
Old French marcheandisebor.
Middle English marchaundise
English merchandise
From Middle English marchaundise (“commerce, trading; buying; business transaction, deal; merchandise, goods, wares; possessions”), from Anglo-Norman marchaundise and Old French marcheandise (modern French marchandise), from Old French marcheant (“seller, vendor”) (ultimately from Latin mercātus (“buying and selling, trade, traffic; market; marketplace”), possibly originally Etruscan) + -ise (suffix forming feminine nouns, often denoting a quality or state). The English word is analysable as merchant + -ise.
Base: merchant
Affixes: -ise
Inflected forms:
form: merchandises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: merchandize
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: merchaundise
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: merchaundize
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: mdse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: merchandises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: merchandising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: merchandised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: merchandised
pos: verb
tags: past
form: merchandize
pos: verb
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: Goods which are or were offered or intended for sale.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Good business depends on having good merchandise.
So, if a Sonne that is by his Father ſent about Merchandize, doe ſinfully miſcarry vpon the Sea; the imputation of his vvickedneſſe, by your rule, ſhould be impoſed vpon his Father that ſent him: […]
The custom of giving away merchandise for advertising purposes is greatly on the increase in this country. More goods are now distributed in one year as advertising novelties and as premiums than in a decade 10 or 15 years ago.
It has been stated that Fred Beers is giving free merchandise to this store and I believe you will find that one of your inspectors obtained a bottle of milk free when he purchased some groceries on Thursday Nov. 23rd [1933].
gloss: Commercial goods connected (branded) with an entity such as a team, band, company, charity, work of fiction, festival, or meme. (Commonly shortened to merch.)
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
usually
examples: Would we then see in what sence heavenly things may be called a merchandise, and in what sence not; this is easy to him that will understand.
What security was there that she might not be a very unfit person, one who had made a merchandise of her charms, the child itself being the offspring of some accidental connexion?
Who feeds a flock, and makes not a merchandise of the sheep?
gloss: The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
uncountable
usually
gloss: To engage in trade; to carry on commerce.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
gloss: To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of goods, as by display and arrangement of goods.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He started his career merchandising in a small clothing store chain.
gloss: To engage in the trade of.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
gloss: To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He got hired to merchandise some new sporting goods lines.
gloss: To promote as if for sale.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The record companies don't get as good a return on merchandising artists under contract.
Synonyms: merch
wares
product
Related words: mercantile
merchant
merchantable
Derived words: distress merchandise
merch
merchandisability
merchandisable
remerchandise
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: mall
lang: Western Apache
word: dawa nahinniihí
lang: Arabic
word: بِضَاعَة
roman: biḍāʕa
lang: Arabic
word: بَضَائِع
roman: baḍāʔiʕ
lang: Arabic
word: سِلْعَة
roman: silʕa
lang: Arabic
word: سِلَع
roman: silaʕ
lang: Arabic
word: مَتَاع
roman: matāʕ
lang: Arabic
word: سلعة
roman: salʕa
lang: Azerbaijani
word: mal
lang: Azerbaijani
word: əmtəə
lang: Bashkir
word: тауар
roman: tawar
lang: Belarusian
word: тава́р
roman: tavár
lang: Bengali
word: পণ্য
roman: ponno
lang: Bulgarian
word: сто́ка
roman: stóka
lang: Bulgarian
word: сто́ки
roman: stóki
lang: Bulgarian
word: това́р
roman: továr
lang: Burmese
word: ကုန်
roman: kun
lang: Catalan
word: mercaderia
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 產品 /产品
roman: chǎnpǐn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 貨物 /货物
roman: huòwù
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 物品
roman: wùpǐn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 製品 /制品
roman: zhìpǐn
lang: Czech
word: zboží
lang: Danish
word: handelsvare
lang: Danish
word: vare
lang: Dutch
word: waar
lang: Dutch
word: goederen
lang: Esperanto
word: komercaĵo
lang: Estonian
word: kaup
lang: Finnish
word: tuotteet
lang: Finnish
word: myyntituotteet
lang: Finnish
word: kauppatavarat
lang: French
word: marchandise
lang: French
word: bien
lang: Galician
word: mercaduría
lang: German
word: Ware
lang: German
word: Waren
lang: German
word: Gut
lang: German
word: Handelsgut
lang: German
word: Handelsware
lang: Greek
word: εμπόρευμα
roman: empórevma
lang: Greek
word: αγαθά
roman: agathá
lang: Ancient Greek
word: φορτία
roman: phortía
lang: Hebrew
word: סְחוֹרָה
roman: s'khorá
lang: Hebrew
word: מִמְכָּר
roman: mimkár
lang: Hindi
word: वस्तु
roman: vastu
lang: Hindi
word: जिंस
roman: jins
lang: Hindi
word: माल
roman: māl
lang: Hindi
word: सामान
roman: sāmān
lang: Hindi
word: पण्य
roman: paṇya
lang: Hungarian
word: áru
lang: Icelandic
word: vara
lang: Icelandic
word: vörur
lang: Ido
word: varo
lang: Ido
word: vari
lang: Indonesian
word: barang
lang: Indonesian
word: barang-barang
lang: Indonesian
word: barang dagangan
lang: Irish
word: earra
lang: Italian
word: merce
lang: Italian
word: mercanzia
lang: Japanese
word: 品物
roman: shinamonó
lang: Japanese
word: 商品
roman: shōhin
lang: Japanese
word: 物品
roman: buppin
lang: Japanese
word: 品
roman: shina
lang: Japanese
word: 商材
roman: shōzai
lang: Kazakh
word: тауар
roman: tauar
lang: Khmer
word: ទំនិញ
roman: tumnɨñ
lang: Korean
word: 상품
roman: sangpum
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: kelûpel
lang: Kyrgyz
word: товар
roman: tovar
lang: Lao
word: ສິນຄ້າ
roman: sin khā
lang: Lao
word: ໂພຄະພັນ
roman: phō kha phan
lang: Lao
word: ເຂົ້າຂອງ
roman: khao khǭng
lang: Lao
word: ສິນ
roman: sin
lang: Latin
word: merx
lang: Latvian
word: prece
lang: Lithuanian
word: prẽkė
lang: Macedonian
word: стока
roman: stoka
lang: Malay
word: barang
lang: Malay
word: barangan
lang: Māori
word: hoko
lang: Māori
word: taonga hokohoko
lang: Mongolian
word: бараа
roman: baraa
lang: Mongolian
word: таваар
roman: tavaar
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: vare
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: gods
lang: Occitan
word: mercadariá
lang: Old East Slavic
word: товаръ
roman: tovarŭ
lang: Pashto
word: متاع
roman: matã'
lang: Persian
word: متاع
roman: matâ'
lang: Persian
word: اجناس
roman: ajnâs
lang: Persian
word: مال
roman: mâl
lang: Persian
word: کالا
roman: kâlâ
lang: Persian
word: جنس
roman: jens
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Woa
lang: Polish
word: towar
lang: Polish
word: artykuł
lang: Polish
word: produkt
lang: Polish
word: dobro
lang: Portuguese
word: mercadoria
lang: Romanian
word: marfă
lang: Russian
word: това́р
roman: továr
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: bathar
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ро̏ба
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: до̀бро
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: rȍba
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: dòbro
lang: Slovak
word: tovar
lang: Slovene
word: blago
lang: Slovene
word: trgovsko blago
lang: Spanish
word: mercancía
lang: Swedish
word: handelsvaror
lang: Swedish
word: vara
lang: Swedish
word: gods
lang: Tagalog
word: kalakal
lang: Tagalog
word: baligyain
lang: Tajik
word: мол
roman: mol
lang: Tatar
word: тауар
roman: tawwar
lang: Thai
word: สินค้า
roman: sǐn-káa
lang: Thai
word: โภคภัณฑ์
roman: pôok-ká-pan
lang: Turkish
word: mal
lang: Turkish
word: emtia
lang: Turkish
word: eşya
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: مال
roman: mal
lang: Turkmen
word: haryt
lang: Turkmen
word: harytlar
lang: Ukrainian
word: това́р
roman: továr
lang: Urdu
word: مال
roman: māl
lang: Urdu
word: سامان
roman: sāmān
lang: Uyghur
word: تاۋار
roman: tawar
lang: Uyghur
word: مال
roman: mal
lang: Uzbek
word: tovar
lang: Uzbek
word: mol
lang: Vietnamese
word: thương phẩm
lang: Vietnamese
word: hàng hoá
lang: Welsh
word: nwyddau
lang: Yiddish
word: סכוירע
roman: skhoyre
lang: Yiddish
word: סחורה
roman: skhoyre