mercero

Spanish

Etymology

Back-formation from mercería.

Noun

mercero m (plural merceros, feminine mercera, feminine plural merceras)

1. dealer; haberdasher; trader

Further reading

• “mercero”, 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