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発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈmɛr.da]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈmɛr.da]

名詞

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, Martialis, 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?

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生語

• *dismerdō

派生した語

参照

Further reading

• “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, 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.