Word Origin Summary

Mercēnārius is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• mercenario

  Italian · derived from

• mercenary

  English · borrowed from

• mercenari

  Occitan · derived from

• mercenaire

  French · derived from

• mercenari

  Catalan · derived from

• mercenário

  Portuguese · derived from

• mersenaryo

  Tagalog · borrowed from

• mercenario

  Spanish · derived from

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