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): (Valencian) [ˈmɛɾ.ða]

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merda f (plural merdes)

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

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

• m*rda (censored)

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!‎, 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

• miarda (regional: Goiáns)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛɾda/ [ˈmɛɾ.ð̞ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɛɾda
• Hyphenation: mer‧da

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

• “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.

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

merda (plural merdas)

1. (vulgar) shit

• fece (“feces”)

• 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, diminutive merdìna or merdolìna, pejorative merdàccia)

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

• merdaio
• merdoso

• → Alemannic German: merde
• → Aromanian: merdu

• -derma, derma, derma-, madre

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) 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. CE, Martial, Epigrammata :

     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?

First-declension noun.

• *dismerdō

• “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.

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

merda

1. third-person singular present of merdać

• m*rda (censored)

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

• (Nordestino) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛɦdɐ]
• (Caipira) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛɹdɐ]
• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɛʁdɐ, (Portugal, São Paulo) -ɛɾdɐ
• Hyphenation: mer‧da

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merda f (plural merdas) (vulgar)

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

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

2. a chunk of shit

   Synonyms: cocô, (rare) fez

3. (uncountable) shit (rubbish; worthless matter)
4. piece of shit (an object of poor quality)

   Synonyms: bosta, porcaria

   O teu trabalho é uma merda.

   Your work is shit!

5. (colloquial, usually uncountable) shit (nonsense; bullshit)
6. (colloquial, 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.

7. (figuratively, colloquial) shit (problem or difficult situation)
8. (figuratively, colloquial) a state of misery or penury

   Synonyms: miséria, pobreza, necessidade, penúria

   Nós nunca conseguimos sair da merda.

   We never made it out of this misery.

• merdimbuca

merda m or f by sense (plural merdas)

1. (vulgar, derogatory) shit (a worthless or cowardly person; used particularly of men)

merda m or f (plural merdas)

1. (vulgar, informal) shit

   Synonym: de merda

merda! (vulgar)

1. 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)

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:merda.