merda

From Old Occitan (compare Occitan mèrda), from Latin merda (compare French merde, Spanish mierda), from Proto-Italic *(s)merdā, from Proto-Indo-European *smerd-h₂- (“stench”).

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛɾ.də/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛr.də/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛɾ.da/

merda f (plural merdes)

1. (slang, vulgar) dung, excrement, shit

• merder
• merderada
• merdícola
• merdissaire
• merdisser
• merdós

From merdo +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmerda/
• Hyphenation: mer‧da
• Rhymes: -erda

merda (accusative singular merdan, plural merdaj, accusative plural merdajn)

1. (vulgar, proscribed) shitty
   • 2009, “Fek al Esperanto!”, in Fek al Esperanto!‎, performed by La Pafklik:

     Mi parolas pri merda lingvo
     Elpensita de stulta avo

     I'm talking about a shitty language
     Thought up by a stupid grandpa

merda

1. third-person singular past historic of merder

• damer, drame, marde

• miarda (Goiáns)

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese *merda, from Latin merda, from Proto-Italic *(s)merdā, from Proto-Indo-European *smerd-h₂- (“stench”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛɾ.ða̝/

merda f (plural merdas)

1. (vulgar) shit, dung, excrement

   Synonyms: bosta, caca, cagalla, cagallón, excremento, feces, frasca, zorollo

2. (vulgar) dirt

   Synonyms: porcallada, sucidade

3. (vulgar, figuratively) crap (all senses)

   Synonyms: caca, porcallada, trapallada

• merdada
• merdalla
• merdán
• merdeiro
• merdento

merda!

1. (vulgar) shit!, rats!, crap!

   Synonym: corno

• “merda” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “merda” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “merda” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “merda” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian merda, French merde, Spanish mierda, and Portuguese merda.

merda (plural merdas)

1. (vulgar) shit

• fece (“feces”)

From Latin merda, from Proto-Italic *(s)merdā, from Proto-Indo-European *smerd-h₂- (“stench”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛr.da/, [ˈmɛr̺d̪ä]
• Hyphenation: mèr‧da

merda f (plural merde)

1. (vulgar, slang, figuratively) shit, crap (all senses)

• merdaio
• merdoso

• → Alemannic German: merde
• → Aromanian: merdu

• derma, madre

From Proto-Italic *(s)merdā, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)merd-h₂- (“stench”), related to Proto-Slavic *smordъ (“stink, odor”) (Czech, Slovene, Croatian smrad, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian смрад (smrad), Polish smród), as well as Latvian smards (“odor”), Lithuanian smirdeti.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmer.da/, [ˈmɛr.da]

merda f (genitive merdae); first declension

1. (slang, vulgar) dung, excrement, shit
   • Anonymous graffito in Pompeii:

     Ut merdas edatis, qui scripseras sopionis

     You who have drawn pictures of penises, eat shit!

First declension.

• Corsican: merda
• Dalmatian: miarda
• Istriot: mierda
• Italian: merda
  • → Alemannic German: merde
  • → Aromanian: merdu
• Eastern Romance:
  • ⇒ Romanian: dezmierada
• Old French: merde
  • Middle French: merde
    • French: merde, marde
      • → English: merde
  • Walloon: miere
• Old Leonese: [Term?]
  • Asturian: mierda
• Old Occitan: [Term?]
  • Catalan: merda
  • Occitan: mèrda
• Old Portuguese: merda
  • Galician: merda
  • Portuguese: merda
• Old Spanish: mierda
  • Ladino: medra
  • Spanish: mierda
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: mierde
  • Romansch: merda, miarda
• Sardinian: merda, melda
• Sicilian: merda
• Venetian: merda

• merda in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• merda in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• merda in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• merda in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

From Old Portuguese merda, from Latin merda, from Proto-Italic *(s)merdā, from Proto-Indo-European *smerd-h₂- (“stench”).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛɾdɐ/, [ˈmɛɾðɐ]
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛʁdɐ/
  • (Paulista) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛɾdɐ]
  • (Nordestino) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛɦdɐ]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛɹdɐ]

merda f (plural merdas)

1. (vulgar, uncountable) shit; faeces (excretory product evacuated from the bowels)
2. (vulgar) a chunk of shit
3. (vulgar) piece of shit (an object of poor quality)
4. (vulgar, slang, may be followed by alguma or nenhuma) shit (anything)

   O teu trabalho é uma merda.

   Your work is shit!

• (faeces): bosta (vulgar), cocô (childish), excremento, fezes
• (chunk of shit): cocô, fez (rare)
• (object of poor quality): bosta, porcaria
• (anything): porra

merda m, f (plural merdas)

1. (vulgar) a worthless or cowardly person

merda

1. (vulgar) shit! (expression of worry, failure, shock, etc.)
2. (dated, theater) break a leg! (a superstitious expression of encouragement prior to a performance)

• (shit!): bosta, cacete, caralho