Lewis Short
nĕgōtĭātĭo | nĕgōc- (noun F) : (), , negotior
* 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.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary