I.a doing business by the wholesale, wholesale business, banking business; also in gen., any business or traffic (class.): “reliquiae Asiaticae negotiationis,” Cic. Fam. 6, 8, 2;“13, 66, 2: negotiationes vel privato pudendae,” Suet. Vesp. 16; Plin. 6, 28, 32, § 157: “pecuaria,” Col. 8, 1, 1: “sagaria et lintearia,” Dig. 14, 4, 5: “cum quis tabernae aut cuilibet negotiationi filium servumve ... praeposuerit,” Gai. Inst. 4, 71: “argenti,” Vulg. Prov. 3, 14: “nolite facere domum Patris mei domum negotiationis,” ib. Joan. 2, 16.
nĕgōtĭātĭo (nĕgōc- ), ōnis, f. negotior,