mercat

From Latin mercātus. See market.

mercat (plural mercats)

1. (obsolete) Market; trade.
   • December 22 1678, Thomas Sprat, A Sermon Preached before the King at White-Hall

     With irresistible majesty and authority our Saviour removed the exchange, and drove the mercat out of the temple.

From Middle Dutch meercatte.

mercat (plural mercats)

1. Obsolete form of meerkat.

From mer- +‎ cat.

mercat (plural mercats)

1. A mermaid cat.
   • 1992, Aurelia Gomez, “Papier-mâché Mermaids”, in Crafts of Many Cultures: 30 Authentic Craft Projects from Around the World, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 22:

     You can also open this project up to encompass other mercreatures, such as merdogs, mercats, or merdeer.

   • 1995, Anna Fienberg, “The Mermaid with Wild Yellow Hair”, in Madeline the Mermaid, Allen & Unwin, published 2010, →ISBN, page 1:

     Madeline lived in a conch shell with her merdog called Byron and her mercat called Bella.

   • 2012, Richard Dungworth, “Mercats and Hairbrushes”, in Mrs Greene, Mermaid Queen, Ladybird Books, →ISBN:

     ‘To be honest, being a mercat – even a royal one – isn’t my thing. Cat and fish don’t mix. I keep wanting to eat my own fish tail. It’s very tiresome!’

   • 2018, Sibéal Pounder, “Hilma on the Chomp”, in Bad Mermaids: On the Rocks, Bloomsbury, →ISBN:

     ‘The mercats like the mulch!’ one of the little mermaids said, as the whole lot of them wriggled out of the seaweed basket and dived into the stuff.

• “mercat”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “mercat”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Carmet, Mec Art

Inherited from Old Catalan mercat, from Latin mercātus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [mərˈkat]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [meɾˈkat]

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• Homophone: marcat (Balearic, Central)

mercat m (plural mercats)

1. market

• mercader
• mercat lliure
• mercat negre
• supermercat

• “mercat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mercat”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “mercat” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mercat” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

mercat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of mercō

• marcat (Gascon)
• marchat, merchat (Limousin)

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mercat m (plural mercats)

1. (Languedoc) market

• markeet, market, mercate, mercatt, mercet, mercket

mercat (plural mercats)

1. market

• “mercat” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.