Noun: merda
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension: First
Nominative
| Singular | merda |
| Plural | merdae |
Genitive
| Singular | merdae |
| Plural | merdārum |
Dative
| Singular | merdae |
| Plural | merdīs |
Accusative
| Singular | merdam |
| Plural | merdās |
Ablative
| Singular | merdā |
| Plural | merdīs |
Vocative
| Singular | merda |
| Plural | merdae |
Sample Sentences
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1st c. CE, anonymous graffito in Pompeii (You who have drawn pictures of penises, eat shit!)
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Os et labra tibi lingit, Manneia, catellus: (The pup licks your mouth and lips, Manneia. It doesn't surprise me if dogs like eating shit.) [86 CE – 103 CE, Martialis, Epigrammata 1.83.1–2]
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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?) [1499, Erasmus, Letter to Faustus Andrelinus, lauded poet]
Nouns inflected like merda
scōria,
meschīta,
sewera,
zōnula,
ecclēsia,
concurrentia,
satira,
satura,
satyra,
sagīna,
sagēna,
sarīsa,
salīva,
salīna,
sampsa,
samara,
sacēna,
salvia,
sabīna,
sculna, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *(s)merdā, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)merd-h₂- (“stench”), a collective formation from *(s)merd- (“to bite, sting”). Cognate with Proto-Slavic *smordъ (“stink, odor”) and its descendants, Latvian smards (“odor”), Proto-Balto-Slavic *smirˀdḗˀtei (“to stink”).
Verbs referencing "merda"
Catalan Nouns
merda, Galician Nouns
merda, Italian Nouns
merda, Portuguese Nouns
merda, French Nouns
merde, English Nouns
mierda, Asturian Nouns
mierda, Spanish Nouns
mierda, English Nouns
merd.
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