merce

See amerce.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɜː(ɹ)s/

merce (third-person singular simple present merces, present participle mercing, simple past and past participle merced)

1. (obsolete) To subject to fine or amercement; to mulct; to amerce.
   • a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:

     this Ralph was merced in seven thousand marks, for bribery, and ejected out of his place.

• “merce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• McRee, c'mere, creme, crème

From Latin mercem (“merchandise”, “goods”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛr.t͡ʃe/

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• Rhymes: -ɛrtʃe
• Hyphenation: mèr‧ce

merce f (plural merci)

1. goods, wares, merchandise, products, commodities

   Synonyms: bene, beni, mercanzia, prodotto, prodotti

• fede

• creme

merce

1. ablative singular of merx

merce

1. (Early Middle English) alternative form of merche

merce m

1. alternative form of mereċe

merce f (oblique plural merces, nominative singular merce, nominative plural merces)

1. mercy; clemency

From Latin merx, mercis.

• Hyphenation: mer‧ce

merce f (plural merces)

1. (rare) merchandise

merce f (plural merces)

1. obsolete spelling of mercê