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Borrowed from French merci (“thank you”).

  • IPA(key): /mɛːˈsiː/ or as French

merci

  1. (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.

merci (plural mercis)

  1. 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.

Borrowed from French merci.

merci

  1. thank you

Borrowed from French merci.

merci

  1. (colloquial) thank you
    Synonyms: gràcies, mercès

Borrowed from French merci.

merci

  1. (chiefly Belgium or colloquial Netherlands) thank you
    Synonyms: dank, dank je, dank je wel, dank u, dank u wel, bedankt

merci f (plural mercis, diminutive mercikes n)

  1. (chiefly Belgium or colloquial Netherlands) thank you
    Synonyms: dank, dankjewel, dankuwel

From Middle French merci, mercy, from Old French merci, from Latin mercēdem (“wages, fee, price”).

Used as an interjection of gratitude since at least the early 12th century, originally as "grand merci", for instance spelled "granz merciz" in Li coronemenz Looïs.

merci

  1. thank you

    merci pour ton aide

    thank you for your help

merci f (uncountable)

  1. mercy
    Synonyms: miséricorde, pitié
  2. grace
    Synonym: grâce

Borrowed from French merci.

merci

  1. (chiefly Switzerland) thank you
    Synonyms: danke, danke schön, ich danke schön
  • “merci” in Duden online
  • “merci” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

merci f

  1. plural of merce

mercī

  1. dative singular of merx

From Old French merci (“mercy; clemency”), from Latin mercēdem (“wages, fee, price”).

merci

  1. (Guernsey) thank you

From Latin mercēdem.

  • (archaic) IPA(key): /mɛɾˈt͡siθ/, (northern) /mɛɾˈt͡ʃiθ/
  • (classical) IPA(key): /mɛɾˈt͡si/, (northern) /mɛɾˈt͡ʃi/
  • (late) IPA(key): /mɛɾˈsi/, (northern) /mɛɾˈʃi/

merci oblique singular, f (nominative singular merci)

  1. mercy; clemency

    • c. 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

    • 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