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mercantile的词源解释,mercantile来源

mercantile(adj.)

"与商人、贸易或商业有关的",1640年代,源自法语 mercantile(17世纪),源自意大利 mercantile,源自中世纪拉丁语 mercantile,源自拉丁语 mercantem(主格 mercans)"商人",也指"贸易",来自 mercari 的现在分词"进行贸易",源自 merx 的"商品,货物"(参见 market(名词))。Mercantile system 首次出现在亚当·斯密(1776年)。

Mercantile system, in polit. econ., the belief generally held till the end of the last century, that all wealth consists in gold and silver, and that therefore the exportation of goods and importation of gold should be encouraged by the state, while the importation of goods and the exportation of gold should be forbidden, or at least restricted as much as possible. [Century Dictionary, 1895]
商业体系,在 polit. econ. 中,直到上个世纪末,普遍认为所有财富都以黄金和白银为基础,因此国家应该鼓励商品的出口和黄金的进口,同时禁止或至少尽可能限制商品的进口和黄金的出口。[世纪词典,1895年]

该词起源时间:1640年代