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How does one say "black market" in Latin?

According to the OED, this word first originated in English in 1727.

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According to the Vatican's Lexicon Recentis Latinitatis, parvum verborum novatorum Léxicum:

mercato nero [Italian]     mercatūra clandestīna [Latin]

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