Etymology

merd

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Today it means: Ordure; dung, shit, excrement. Full definition →

French merde ← Latin merda
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The story

  1. Latin · borrowed frommerda
  2. French · borrowed frommerde
  3. English todaymerd

Borrowed from French merde and Latin merda. Doublet of mierda and merde.

Words from the same roots

Latinmerda all →

merdivorous

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.