merda

merda

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio

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Noun

merda f (plural merdes)

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

Derived terms

• a tota merda
• cul i merda
• merda de bruixa
• merder
• merderada
• merdícola
• merdissaire
• merdisser
• merdós

 

Further reading

• “merda” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Esperanto

Etymology

From merdo +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

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French

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Verb

merda

1. third-person singular past historic of merder

Anagrams

• damer, drame, marde

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Galician

Alternative forms

• miarda (regional: Goiáns)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛɾ.ða̝/

Noun

merda f (plural merdas)

1. (vulgar) shit, dung, excrement

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

2. (vulgar) dirt

   Synonyms: cotra, porcallada, sucidade

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

   Synonyms: caca, porcallada, trapallada

Related terms

• enmerdar
• merdada
• merdalla
• merdán
• merdeiro
• merdento

Interjection

merda!

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

   Synonym: corno

References

• “merda” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “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.

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Interlingua

Etymology

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

Noun

merda (plural merdas)

1. (vulgar) shit

Synonyms

• fece (“feces”)

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Italian

Alternative forms

• m*rda (censored)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛr.da/, ^*/ˈmɛr.da/
• Rhymes: -ɛrda
• Hyphenation: mèr‧da

Noun

merda f (plural merde, diminutive merdìna or merdolìna, pejorative merdàccia)

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

Related terms

• merdaio
• merdoso

Descendants

• → Alemannic German: merde
• → Aromanian: merdu

Anagrams

• -derma, derma, derma-, madre

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

merda f (genitive merdae); first declension

1. (slang, vulgar) dung, excrement, shit
   • 1st c. CE, anonymous graffito in Pompeii:

     Ut merdas edatis, qui scripseras sopionis

     You who have drawn pictures of penises, eat shit!

   • 1st c. CE, Martial, Epigrams :

     Os et labra tibi lingit, Manneia, catellus: Non miror, merdas si libet esse cani.

     The pup licks your mouth and lips, Manneia. It doesn't surprise me if dogs like eating shit.

   • 1499, Erasmus, Letter to Faustus Andrelinus, lauded poet :

     Nos in Anglia nonnihil promovimus. […] Tu quoque, si sapis, huc advolabis. Quid ita te iuvat hominem tam nasutum inter merdas Gallicas consenescere?

     We have made some progress in England. […] You, too, if you're wise, will "fly" your way here. What pleases you, a man of such great wit, about growing old in French shit?

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	merda	merdae
Genitive	merdae	merdārum
Dative	merdae	merdīs
Accusative	merdam	merdās
Ablative	merdā	merdīs
Vocative	merda	merdae

Derived terms

• *dismerdō

Descendants

• Dalmatian:
  • miarda
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: merda
  • Italian: merda, m*rda
    • → Alemannic German: merde
    • → Aromanian: merdu
  • Sicilian: merda
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: merda, melda
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: mierde
  • Istriot: mierda
  • Romansch: merda, miarda
  • Venetian: merda
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: merde
    • Middle French: merde
      • French: merde, marde
    • Walloon: miere
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: merda
  • Occitan: mèrda
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: mierda
  • Asturian: mierda
  • Galician: merda
  • Portuguese: merda
  • Old Spanish: mierda
    • Ladino: medra
    • Spanish: mierda

References

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• merda in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛr.da/
• Rhymes: -ɛrda
• Syllabification: mer‧da

Verb

merda

1. third-person singular present of merdać

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• m*rda (censored)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛʁ.dɐ/ [ˈmɛɦ.dɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛʁ.dɐ/ [ˈmɛɦ.dɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛɾ.dɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛʁ.dɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛɻ.da/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛɾ.dɐ/ [ˈmɛɾ.ðɐ]

• (Nordestino) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛɦdɐ]
• (Caipira) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛɹdɐ]
• Hyphenation: mer‧da

Noun

merda f (plural merdas)

1. (vulgar, uncountable) shit; faeces (excretory product evacuated from the bowels)

   Synonyms: (vulgar) bosta, (childish) cocô, excremento, fezes

2. (vulgar) a chunk of shit

   Synonyms: cocô, (rare) fez

3. (vulgar) piece of shit (an object of poor quality)

   O teu trabalho é uma merda.

   Your work is shit!

   Synonyms: bosta, porcaria

4. (vulgar, slang, followed by alguma or nenhuma) shit (anything)

   Fiquei aqui o dia todo e não fiz merda nenhuma.

   I stayed here all day long and didn't do shit.

5. (figuratively, slang) a state of misery or penury

   Nós nunca conseguimos sair da merda.

   We never made it out of this misery.

   Synonyms: miséria, pobreza, necessidade, penúria

Derived terms

• merdimbuca

Noun

merda m or f by sense (plural merdas)

1. (vulgar) a worthless or cowardly person

Interjection

merda

1. (vulgar) shit! (expression of worry, failure, shock, etc.)

   Synonyms: bosta, caralho, (Brazil) cacete

2. (dated, theater) break a leg! (a superstitious expression of encouragement prior to a performance)