merci

French merci (“thank you”)

• IPA^(key): /mɛːˈsiː/ or as French

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.

• merci buckets

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.

• belle dame sans merci

• CRIME, REMIC, crime

Borrowed from French merci.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛrsi/

merci

1. thank you

• dankche
• fergälts Got
• tank
• vrattrus Got
• wol vergelzgott

Borrowed from French merci.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmɛr.si]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈmɛɾ.si]

merci

1. (colloquial) thank you

   Synonyms: gràcies, mercès

Borrowed from French merci.

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merci

1. (chiefly Belgium or colloquial Netherlands) thank you

   Synonyms: dank, dank je, dank je wel, dank u, dank u wel, bedankt

• mercikes

merci f (plural mercis, diminutive mercikes n)

1. (chiefly Belgium or colloquial Netherlands) thank you

   Synonyms: dank, dankjewel, dankuwel

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.

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

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

merci

1. thank you

   merci pour ton aide

   thank you for your help

merci f (uncountable)

1. mercy

   Synonyms: miséricorde, pitié

2. grace

   Synonym: grâce

• “merci”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• cimer, crime

Borrowed from French merci.

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

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merci

1. (chiefly Switzerland) thank you

   Synonyms: danke, danke schön, ich danke schön

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

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

merci f

1. plural of merce

• cremi, crime

mercī

1. dative singular of merx

• mercie (Guernsey)

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

merci

1. (Guernsey) thank you

• mercie bian (“thank you very much”)

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

From Latin mercēdem.

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

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

• French: merci
• Norman: merci
• → Middle English: merci
  • English: mercy

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