merci
English
Interjection
merci
- (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.
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Noun
merci (plural mercis)
- 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.
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Alemannic German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɛrsi/
Catalan
Pronunciation
French
Etymology
From Middle French merci, mercy, from Old French merci, from Latin mercēdem, accusative singular of mercēs (“wages, fee, price”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɛʁ.si/
- (France, Paris) IPA(key): [mɛʁ.si]
Audio (France, Paris) (file) - (Louisiana) IPA(key): [mæ(ɾ).si]
- Homophone: mercis
Descendants
Further reading
- “merci” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Norman
Alternative forms
- mercie (Guernsey)
Etymology
From Old French merci (“mercy; clemency”), from Latin mercēs, mercēdem (“wages, fee, price”).
Old French
Alternative forms
Noun
merci f (nominative singular merci)
- mercy; clemency
- circa 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
- If you throw yourselves on his mercy
- 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
- this you know, my friend, that all those who are looking for you
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