merci

English

Etymology

French merci (“thank you”)

Interjection

merci

1. (French, colloquial) thank you

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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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• Homophone: mercis

Noun

merci f (invariable)

1. mercy, grace

Noun

merci m (plural mercis)

1. (interjection) thank you

Descendants

• Arabic: مرسي (mersī, “colloquial, dialectal”)
• Armenian: մերսի (mersi, “colloquial”)
• Bulgarian: мерси́ (mersí, “colloquial”)
• Persian: مرسی (mersi, “colloquial”)

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

Anagrams

• cimer, crime

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German

Etymology

Borrowing from French merci

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɛʁˈsiː]

Interjection

merci

1. (Switzerland) thank you

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Guernésiais

Etymology

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

Interjection

merci

1. thank you

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mèr‧ci

Noun

merci f

1. plural form of merce

Anagrams

• cremi

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Latin

Noun

mercī

1. dative singular of merx

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