merci

See also: Merci, mērci, and merçi

English

Etymology

French merci (thank you)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɛːˈsiː/ or as French

Interjection

merci

  1. (colloquial) thank you
    • 2005, Victoria Laurie, A Vision of Murder: A Psychic Eye Mystery, →ISBN:
      Rebecca Rosen, merci for helping me to understand that connection between you and The Other Side, and making the character of Theresa come alive.
    • 2008, Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile, →ISBN:
      "Improve the roads! Merci for the reception!" With this insouciant remark and the banner he affixed to his automobile that read "Auto rally against roadlessness and slovenliness!"
    • 2014, Art Wiederhold, Hunter: Quebec, →ISBN:
      Merci, Bob. I'll inform Lauren,” Bergere said as he hurried out of the office.

Noun

merci (plural mercis)

  1. An extra card or set of cards that is allowed to play at the end of various card games.
    • 1995, Peter Arnold, The Book of Card Games, →ISBN, page 15:
      Few games are won without the merci. In the final deal a King above a card of the same suit automatically blocks the game, and the merci should be used to free such a card.

See also

Anagrams

Alemannic German

Etymology

Borrowed from French merci.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛrsi/

Interjection

merci

  1. thank you

Synonyms

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French merci.

Pronunciation

Interjection

merci

  1. (colloquial) thank you
    Synonyms: gràcies, mercès

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French merci.

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Interjection

merci

  1. (chiefly Belgium or colloquial Netherlands) thank you
    Synonyms: dank, dank je, dank je wel, dank u, dank u wel, bedankt

Variants

  • mercikes

Noun

merci f (plural mercis, diminutive mercikes n)

  1. (chiefly Belgium or colloquial Netherlands) thank you
    Synonyms: dank, dankjewel, dankuwel

French

Etymology

From Middle French merci, mercy, from Old French merci, from Latin mercēdem (wages, fee, price).

Used as an interjection of gratitude since at least the early 12th century, originally as "grand merci", for instance spelled "granz merciz" in Li coronemenz Looïs.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɛʁ.si/
  • (France, Paris) IPA(key): [mɛʁ.si]
  • (file)
  • (Louisiana) IPA(key): [mæ(ɾ).si]
  • Homophone: mercis

Interjection

merci

  1. thank you
    merci pour ton aide
    thank you for your help

Noun

merci f (uncountable)

  1. mercy
    Synonyms: miséricorde, pitié
  2. grace
    Synonym: grâce

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Alemannic German: merci
  • Arabic: مرسي (mersī, thanks (colloquial))
  • Armenian: մերսի (mersi, thanks (colloquial))
  • Bulgarian: мерси́ (mersí, thanks (colloquial))
  • Catalan: merci
  • Dutch: merci
  • German: merci
  • Haitian Creole: mèsi
  • Japanese: メルシー (merushī)
  • Korean: 메르시 (mereusi)
  • Louisiana Creole: mèsi, mærsi
  • Luxembourgish: merci
  • Ottoman Turkish: մէրսի (mersi)
  • Persian: مرسی (mersi, thanks (colloquial))
  • Romanian: mersi
  • Russian: мерси́ (mersí, thanks (colloquial))

Further reading

Anagrams

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French merci.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɛʁˈsiː/
  • (Switzerland) IPA(key): /ˈmɛʁ.si/
  • (file)

Interjection

merci

  1. (chiefly Switzerland) thank you
    Synonyms: danke, danke schön, ich danke schön

Further reading

  • merci” in Duden online
  • merci” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛr.t͡ʃi/
  • Rhymes: -ɛrtʃi
  • Hyphenation: mèr‧ci

Noun

merci f

  1. plural of merce

Anagrams

Latin

Noun

mercī

  1. dative singular of merx

Norman

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Interjection

merci

  1. (Guernsey) thank you

Derived terms

Old French

Alternative forms

  • mercit (archaic)
  • merchit, merchi (northern)

Etymology

From Latin mercēdem.

Pronunciation

  • (archaic) IPA(key): /mɛɾˈt͡siθ/, (northern) /mɛɾˈt͡ʃiθ/
  • (classical) IPA(key): /mɛɾˈt͡si/, (northern) /mɛɾˈt͡ʃi/
  • (late) IPA(key): /mɛɾˈsi/, (northern) /mɛɾˈʃi/

Noun

merci oblique singular, f (nominative singular merci)

  1. mercy; clemency
    • c. 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

Descendants

References

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