# merces
## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈmer.keːs/, [ˈmɛrkeːs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈmer.t͡ʃes/, [ˈmɛrt͡ʃes]

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

mercēs
* nominative/accusative/vocative plural of merx

### Etymology 2

From merx (“merchandise”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “-ēd-?”)

#### Noun

mercēs f (genitive mercēdis); third declension
* pay, wages, reward
    Synonyms: praemium, pretium, stīpendium, oblātiō, commodum
    Beati estis cum maledixerint vobis, et persecuti vos fuerint, et dixerint omne malum adversum vos mentientes, propter me: gaudete, et exultate, quoniam merces vestra copiosa est in caelis.Blessed are ye, when men shall curse you, and persecute you, and, lying, speak all ill of you, because of me: rejoice, and exult, for your reward is abundant in heaven. — Vulgate, Mt 5, 11-12.
* revenue, income
    Synonym: exitus
* chastisement, punishment, penalty
    Synonyms: pūnītiō, sānctiō, poena, supplicium, exemplum, vindicātiō, vindicta, animadversus, malum, pretium
* rent
* bribe

##### Declension

Third-declension noun.

##### Derived terms

* mercēdārius
* mercēdituum
* mercēdonius
* mercēdula
* mercēnārius/mercēnnārius

##### Descendants

* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: merchede
* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: mercede, mercé
** Sicilian: mirzidi, mirzì, ⇒ grammirzì
* Northern Gallo-Romance:
** Franco-Provençal: marci
** Old French: merci, mercit (archaic), merchit, merchi (northern)
*** French: merci
*** Norman: merci
*** → Middle English: merci
**** English: mercy
* Southern Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: mercè, mercès ⇒ vostè (may be borrowed from Spanish)
** Occitan: mercé, mercé
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: merce ⇒ vusté
** Asturian: mercé ⇒ vusté, vosté
** Old Galician-Portuguese: mercee
*** Galician: mercé
*** Portuguese: mercê ⇒ você
** Old Spanish: merced
*** Ladino: merçed (מירסידﬞ)
*** Spanish: merced ⇒ usted
**** → Galician: vostede

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

mercēs
* second-person singular present active subjunctive of mercō

### References

* “merces”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “merces”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* merces in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
* "merces", 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)
* merces in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to be hired, suborned: mercede conductum esse (ambiguous) the stipulated reward for anything: pacta merces alicuius rei (ambiguous) to set out goods for sale: exponere, proponere merces (venales)
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “mercenary”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmɛʁ.sis/ [ˈmɛh.sis]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmɛʁ.sis/ [ˈmɛh.sis]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ˈmɛɾ.sis/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈmɛʁ.siʃ/ [ˈmɛχ.siʃ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈmɛɻ.ses/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈmɛɾ.sɨʃ/
* Hyphenation: mer‧ces

### Noun

merces
* plural of merce