merda

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.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmɛr.də]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmɛɾ.ða]

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merda f (plural merdes)

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

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

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From merdo +‎ -a.

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

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

1. (vulgar, proscribed) shitty
   • 2009, “Fek al Esperanto!”, in Fek al Esperanto!‎^[1], 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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merda

1. third-person singular past historic of merder

• damer, drame, marde

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• miarda (regional: Goiáns)

From Old Galician and Old Galician-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: cotra, porcallada, sucidade

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

   Synonyms: caca, porcallada, trapallada

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

merda!

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

   Synonym: corno

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “merda”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “merda”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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

merda (plural merdas)

1. (vulgar) shit

• fece (“feces”)

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• m*rda (censored)

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

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

merda f (plural merde)

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

• merdaio
• merdoso

• → Alemannic German: merde
• → Aromanian: merdu

• -derma, derma, derma-, madre

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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.

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

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. AD, Martial, Epigrammata :

     Non miror, merdas si libet esse cani.

     I'm not surprised if a dog likes to eat 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?

First-declension noun.

• Aragonese: mierda
• Corsican: merda
• Dalmatian: miarda
• Istriot: mierda
• Italian: merda, m*rda (censored)
  • → Alemannic German: merde
  • → Aromanian: merdu
• Eastern Romance:
  • ⇒ Romanian: dezmierda
• Old French: merde
  • Middle French: merde
    • French: merde, marde
  • Walloon: miere
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: mierda
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: merda
  • Occitan: mèrda
• Old Galician-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
• Venetan: 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 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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merda

1. third-person singular present of merdać

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• m*rda (censored)

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

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• Hyphenation: mer‧da

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

• merdimbuca

merda m or f (plural merdas)

1. (vulgar) a worthless or cowardly person

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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)