commerce: [16] Commerce is etymologically related to market, merchandise, merchant, and mercury. It comes, perhaps via French commerce, from Latin commercium ‘trade’, a compound noun formed from the collective prefix com- ‘together’ and merx ‘merchandise’. The adjective commercial is 17th-century, its nominal use for ‘broadcast advertisement’ 20thcentury. => market, merchant, mercury
1530s, from Middle French commerce (14c.), from Latin commercium "trade, trafficking," from com- "together" (see com-) + merx (genitive mercis) "merchandise" (see market (n.)).
双语例句
1. There were notable jousts with the Secretary of Commerce.
和商业部长之间明显存在竞争。
来自柯林斯例句
2. leaders of industry and commerce
工商界领导人
来自《权威词典》
3. During the war, they laid an embargo on commerce with enemy countries.
在战争期间, 他们禁止与敌国通商.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. The marketplace was where commerce was traditionally carried on.
