merci

See also: mērci and merçi

English

Etymology

French merci (“thank you”)

Interjection

merci

1. (colloquial) thank you

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Alemannic German

Etymology

From French merci.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛrsi/

Interjection

merci

1. thank you

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowing from French merci.

Interjection

merci

1. (colloquial) thank you

Synonyms

• gràcies
• mercès

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French

Etymology

From Middle French merci, mercy, from Old French merci, from Latin mercēdem, accusative singular of mercēs (“wages, fee, price”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛʁ.si/
• (France, Paris) IPA^(key): [mɛʁ.si]

• Audio (France, Paris)

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• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): [mæ(ɾ).si]
• Homophone: mercis

Noun

merci m (plural mercis)

1. (interjection) thank you

Noun

merci f (uncountable)

1. mercy, grace

Descendants

• Arabic: مرسي (mersī, “thanks (colloquial)”)
• Armenian: մերսի (mersi, “thanks (colloquial)”)
• Bulgarian: мерси́ (mersí, “thanks (colloquial)”)
• Catalan: merci

• Persian: مرسی (mersi, “thanks (colloquial)”)
• Romanian: mersi
• Russian: мерси́ (mersí, “thanks (colloquial)”)
• Turkish mersi

Anagrams

• cimer, crime

Further reading

• “merci” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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German

Etymology

Borrowing from French merci

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɛʁˈsiː]

Interjection

merci

1. (Switzerland) thank you

Synonyms

• danke
• danke schön
• ich danke schön

Further reading

• merci in Duden online

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mèr‧ci

Noun

merci f

1. plural of merce

Anagrams

• cremi

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Latin

Noun

mercī

1. dative singular of merx

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Norman

Alternative forms

• mercie (Guernsey)

Etymology

From Old French merci (“mercy; clemency”), from Latin mercēs, mercēdem (“wages, fee, price”).

Interjection

merci

1. (Guernsey) thank you

Derived terms

• mercie bian (“thank you very much”)

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Old French

Alternative forms

• merchi

Noun

merci f (nominative singular merci)

1. mercy; clemency
   • circa 1176, Chrétien de Troyes, Cligès:

     Se vos metez an sa merci
     Nus (fors le conte qui est ci)
     de vos n'i a mort desservie
     ja ne perdroiz manbre ne vie

     If you throw yourselves on his mercy
     None (apart from the count who is here)
     of you deserve death;
     you will lose neither life nor limb

   • 13th century, Herman de Valenciennes, Assomption Nostre Dame, page 7, column 2, lines 16-17:

     ceo sacez m'amie tuit cil que te requerunt
     a tun commandement merci auvrunt

     this you know, my friend, that all those who are looking for you
     upon your command will have mercy