miserere

See also: Miserere

English

Etymology

From Middle English miserere, a borrowing from Latin miserēre (“have pity”), first word of the 51st Psalm, a calque of Ancient Greek ἐλέησον (eléēson).

Noun

miserere (plural misereres)

1. A prayer for mercy.
2. An expression of lamentation or complaint.
3. A medieval dagger, used for the mercy stroke to a wounded foe; misericord.
4. (architecture) A small projecting boss or bracket on the underside of the hinged seat of a church stall, intended to give some support to a standing worshipper when the seat is turned up; a misericord.
5. Ileus.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “miserere”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

References

• “miserere”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “miserere”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) miserēre

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of miseror
2. second-person singular present passive subjunctive of miserō
3. present active infinitive of miseret
4. present active infinitive of misereō
5. second-person singular present passive imperative of misereō
6. second-person singular present passive indicative of misereō
7. second-person singular present active imperative of misereor
8. second-person singular present active indicative of misereor