[Sca-cooks] define" market"`` RE: Some Antirians go to Estrella...

[Terry Decker]

Market derives from the Latin "mercatus" whose root, "merc-" means 
merchandise.  The mercatus was a public place for the buying and selling of 
goods, usually trade of foodstuffs that could not be produced in town for 
goods that could not be produced in the country.  All Roman cities had an 
area that served as a market and the concept and terminology was transferred 
into Roman Europe.

The greatest of the Roman markets, the Mercatus Traiani, was completed about 
110 CE and is the first of the megamart super malls.

http://www.roman-empire.net/tours/rome/trajans-market.html

Bear

> What is the documentation for the use of the term "market"?
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> We are starting to call "merchants row" the more period term of "market"