Etymology of the English word supermarket
the English word
supermarketderived from the English word
marketderived from the North French word
marketderived from the Latin root
*marcatusderived from the Latin word
mercatus (gathering for the purposes of commerce, market; fair)
derived from the Latin word
mercari (trade; buy)
derived from the Latin word
merx (commodity; merchandise, goods)
using the English prefix
super-derived from the Medieval Latin prefix
super-derived from the Classical Latin word
super (above)
derived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*uperDerivations in English
superette,
supermarketerDerivations in other languages
French
supermarché, Italian
supermarket, Spanish
supermercadoUsage
Word found in Modern English
