mercearia

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Italian merce

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -ārius

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Italic *-ā

Latin -a

Latin -āriader.

Italian -eria

Italian merceriabor.

Portuguese mercearia

Borrowed from Italian merceria.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /meʁ.se.aˈɾi.ɐ/ [meh.se.aˈɾi.ɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /meʁ.se.aˈɾi.ɐ/ [meh.se.aˈɾi.ɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /meɾ.se.aˈɾi.ɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /meʁ.se.aˈɾi.ɐ/ [meχ.se.aˈɾi.ɐ]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /meɻ.se.aˈɾi.ɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɨɾ.sjɐˈɾi.ɐ/

• Hyphenation: mer‧ce‧a‧ri‧a

Noun

mercearia f (plural mercearias)

1. grocery store, grocer's, bodega

Further reading

• “mercearia”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “mercearia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026