mercader

From mercat (“market”) +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [mər.kəˈðe]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [meɾ.kaˈðeɾ]
• Rhymes: -e(ɾ)

mercader m (plural mercaders, feminine mercadera)

1. merchant

• mercaderia

• Spanish: mercader

• “mercader” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mercader”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “mercader” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mercader” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Old Catalan mercader, the native formation being mercadero.

mercader m (plural mercaders)

1. merchant (person who traffics in commodities for profit)
   • ca. 1300, anonymous, Libro del cavallero Cifar f. 94v, (ed. by Juan Manuel Cacho Blecua, pub. by Universidad de Zaragoza, 2003):

     —Dime, amigo, ¿para qué serías tú bueno?
     —¡Ay hombre bueno!—dixo él—, ¿y quién vos dixo mi nombre?
     —¿Y cómo?—dixo el mercader—, ¿Amigo te dizen?
     —Amigo—dixo él—me dizen.
     —Plázeme—dixo el mercader.

     "Tell me, amigo, what are you good at?"
     "Oh, my good man," he said, "who told you my name?"
     "What do you mean?" said the merchant, "Is Amigo your name?"
     "It is Amigo," said he.
     "I like that," said the merchant.

• Ladino: merkader
• Spanish: mercader

From Old Spanish mercader.

• IPA^(key): /meɾkaˈdeɾ/ [meɾ.kaˈð̞eɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: mer‧ca‧der

mercader m (plural mercaderes, feminine mercader or mercadera, feminine plural mercaderes or mercaderas)

1. merchant (person who traffics in commodities for profit)

   Synonym: mercante

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