RETAIL Copy link • RETAIL 1. s. mercatura tenuis (general term for a business in a small way). A retail shop (for cloth), *taberna, in qua panni ad ulnam venduntur (Cic., Off., 1, 42, 151). 2. v. divendere: distrahere: ad ulnam vendere (of stuffs, etc.): mercaturam tenuem facere (after Cic.): promiscua et vilia mercari (Tac., Germ., 5).