Etymograph

English

monger

Monger comes from Middle English mongere ‘dealer, merchant, trader’, and goes back to Latin mangō.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmangō1‘dealer, trader’disputed
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*mangārī1‘dealer, merchant, monger’reconstructed
  3. Old Englishc. 450–1150mangere1‘dealer, merchant, trader’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500mongere1‘dealer, merchant, trader’
  5. Englishearliest quotation c. 1598–1600monger1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English monger
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: c. 1598–1600, William Shakespeare, As You Like It: “There is a man haunts the Forreſt, that abuſes…”.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmangōWiktionary, English monger‘dealer, trader’disputed
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*mangārīWiktionary, English monger‘dealer, merchant, monger’reconstructed
  3. Old Englishc. 450–1150mangereWiktionary, English monger‘dealer, merchant, trader’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500mongereWiktionary, English monger‘dealer, merchant, trader’
  5. Englishearliest quotation c. 1598–1600mongerWiktionary, English monger. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: c. 1598–1600, William Shakespeare, As You Like It: “There is a man haunts the Forreſt, that abuſes…”

Every English word from Latin mangō

Today it means

noun A dealer or trader in a specific commodity.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “monger”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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