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
commerce (n.)
1530s, from Middle French commerce (14c.), from Latin commercium "trade, trafficking," from com- "together" (see com-) + merx (genitive mercis) "merchandise" (see market (n.)).
雙語例句
1. There were notable jousts with the Secretary of Commerce.
和商業(yè)部長之間明顯存在競爭。
來自柯林斯例句
2. leaders of industry and commerce
工商界領(lǐng)導人
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
3. During the war, they laid an embargo on commerce with enemy countries.
在戰(zhàn)爭期間, 他們禁止與敵國通商.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. The marketplace was where commerce was traditionally carried on.