“market” in Latin

Time, place, or assembly for selling and buying, mercatus (assembly of buyers and sellers in public places): mindinae (a weekly market, market-day): forum, also with rerum venalium (a place where things are sold; ☞ MARKET-TOWN). To hold a market, mercatum habere: to appoint a market, mercatum nundinas instituere: to go to market, ad mercatum proficisci: to go, come to any place to market, aliquo ad mercatum ire, venire: to attend the markets, go about to the markets, nundinas obire; circa fora proficisci ibique merces venditare (of a dealer; after Liv., 39, 18): to take anything to market, aliquid ad mercatum deferre (PROP.); aliquid proferre, in medium proferre or promere: market-people, qui nundinas obeunt or obierunt; qui ad mercatum veniunt or venerunt: clerk of the market, agoranomus (ἀγορανόμος, with the Greeks, answers best to the English notion, Plaut., Capt., 4, 2, 44, etc.); aedilis plebis (the magistrate who, at Rome, had the superintendence of the affairs of the market; it therefore very indistinctly expresses ournotion): praefectus annonae (in respect of the sale of corn).

Sale, vent, venditio mercium. A good or quick market, *faclis et expedita venditio mercium: to find a good market, *facile vendi: to find no market, *repudiari: that has a good market, vendibilis (opposed to invendibilis).