merces

See also: mercès, mercês, Mercês, mērcēs, and mērces

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛr.keːs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛr.t͡ʃes]

Etymology 1

Noun

mercēs

nominative/accusative/vocative plural of merx

Etymology 2

From merx (“merchandise”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “-ēd-?”)

Noun

mercēs f (genitive mercēdis); third declension

pay, wages, reward
Synonyms: praemium, pretium, stīpendium, oblātiō, commodum

Beati estis cum maledixerint vobis, et persecuti vos fuerint, et dixerint omne malum adversum vos mentientes, propter me: gaudete, et exultate, quoniam merces vestra copiosa est in caelis.
Blessed are ye, when men shall curse you, and persecute you, and, lying, speak all ill of you, because of me: rejoice, and exult, for your reward is abundant in heaven. — Vulgate, Mt 5, 11-12.
revenue, income
Synonym: exitus
chastisement, punishment, penalty
Synonyms: pūnītiō, sānctiō, poena, supplicium, exemplum, vindicātiō, vindicta, animadversus, malum, pretium
rent
bribe

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	mercēs	mercēdēs
genitive	mercēdis	mercēdum
dative	mercēdī	mercēdibus
accusative	mercēdem	mercēdēs
ablative	mercēde	mercēdibus
vocative	mercēs	mercēdēs

Derived terms

Descendants

Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: merchede
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: mercede, mercé
- Sicilian: mirzidi, mirzì, ⇒ grammirzì
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: marci
- Old French: merci, mercit (archaic), merchit, merchi (northern)
  - French: merci
  - Norman: merci
  - → Middle English: merci
    - English: mercy
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: mercè, mercès ⇒ vostè (may be borrowed from Spanish)
- Occitan: mercé, mercé
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: merce ⇒ vusté
- Asturian: mercé ⇒ vusté, vosté
- Old Galician-Portuguese: mercee
  - Galician: mercé
  - Portuguese: mercê ⇒ você
- Old Spanish: merced
  - Ladino: merçed (מירסידﬞ)
  - Spanish: merced ⇒ usted
    - → Galician: vostede

Etymology 3

Verb

mercēs

second-person singular present active subjunctive of mercō

References

“merces”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“merces”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
merces in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
"merces", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
merces in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be hired, suborned: mercede conductum esse
- (ambiguous) the stipulated reward for anything: pacta merces alicuius rei
- (ambiguous) to set out goods for sale: exponere, proponere merces (venales)
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “mercenary”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛʁ.sis/ [ˈmɛh.sis]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛɾ.sis/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛʁ.siʃ/ [ˈmɛχ.siʃ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛɻ.ses/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛɾ.sɨʃ/

Hyphenation: mer‧ces

Noun

merces

plural of merce