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commerciale

Commerciale is an Italian adjective meaning related to commerce, trade, or business. It derives from the Latin commercium and arrived in Italian through medieval usage influenced by French. The term is widely used in phrases such as attività commerciale (business activity), settore commerciale (commercial sector), and canale commerciale (distribution channel). When used as a noun, commerciale can denote a sales representative, as in un commerciale, or refer to the sales department of a company, called l’area/la direzione commerciale in Italian.

In business and marketing contexts, commerciale denotes activities oriented toward selling products or services. Phrases include

In French, commerciale is the feminine form of commercial and functions as both adjective and noun in

Related terms include commerce, mercantile, and marketing.

marketing
commerciale,
pubblicità
commerciale,
and
strategia
commerciale.
similar
sense:
une
direction
commerciale,
un
agent
commercial.
Distinctions
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languages
reflect
the
shared
Latin
roots
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differ
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orthography.