mercado

Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese mercado (literally “market”).

• IPA^(key): /mɛʁ.ka.do/

mercado m (plural mercados)

1. flea market: synonym of marché aux puces

From Old Galician-Portuguese mercado, from Latin mercātus.

• IPA^(key): /meɾˈkado/ [meɾˈkɑ.ð̞ʊ]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Hyphenation: mer‧ca‧do

mercado m (plural mercados)

1. marketplace

   Synonyms: campo da feira, praza, praza do mercado

2. market

   Synonym: feira

• mercar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mercado (feminine mercada, masculine plural mercados, feminine plural mercadas)

1. past participle of mercar

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mercado”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mercado”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mercado”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /meɾˈkado/
• Rhymes: -ado
• Hyphenation: mer‧ca‧do

Inherited from Latin mercātus, from mercor + -tus. By surface analysis, mercar +‎ -ado.

mercado m (plural mercados)

1. marketplace (open area in a town housing a public market)
2. trade; deal

• Fala: mercau
• Galician: mercado
• Portuguese: mercado
  • → Hunsrik: Mërkaat

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mercado

1. past participle of mercar

• Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2025) “mercado”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mercado”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mercado”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• Hyphenation: mer‧ca‧do

From Old Galician-Portuguese mercado, from Latin mercātus.

mercado m (plural mercados)

1. market; marketplace (open area in a town housing a public market)

   Synonyms: feira, venda

2. market; grocery (store where groceries can be purchased)
3. market (group of potential customers for one's product)
4. market (geographical area where a certain commercial demand exists)
5. (uncountable) market (the world of commerce and trade)
   • 2007, Márcia Tolotti, As Armadilhas do Consumo, Elsevier Brasil, →ISBN, page 51:

     O desejo por status pode ser considerado, no seu extremo, uma doença moderna e coletiva. Isso ocorre quando a falta ou a escassez de bens materiais representa um autodesprezo e uma prova de inferioridade. Para combater tal sensação, algumas pessoas se lançam no mercado como verdadeiros kamikazes do consumo.

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6. (figurative) marketplace (a place or sphere for the exchange of anything)

   Synonym: bazar

• → Hunsrik: Mërkaat

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mercado (feminine mercada, masculine plural mercados, feminine plural mercadas)

1. past participle of mercar

• IPA^(key): /meɾˈkado/ [meɾˈka.ð̞o]

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• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: mer‧ca‧do

Inherited from Latin mercātus. Doublet of marqueta.

mercado m (plural mercados)

1. market

• → Cebuano: merkado
• → Waray-Waray: merkado

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mercado (feminine mercada, masculine plural mercados, feminine plural mercadas)

1. past participle of mercar

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