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mercedem

Mercedem is a Latin noun meaning reward, wage, or pay. It is the accusative singular form of merces, mercedis, a feminine noun of the third declension. The full paradigm includes nom. merces, gen. mercedis, dat. mercedi, acc. mercedem, abl. mercede. In sense, mercedem encompasses compensation for services or labor, and it can also denote a reward or recompense in a broader or figurative sense.

In classical and late Latin, mercedem appears in legal, military, and economic contexts. Common collocations include

Etymology and legacy: mercedem derives from merces, mercedis, the Latin word for wages or reward. The root

mercedem
dare
(to
pay
wages)
and
mercedem
accipere
(to
receive
pay).
The
term
frequently
appears
in
inscriptions
and
documents
dealing
with
payroll,
compensation,
or
contractual
obligations.
has
given
rise
to
related
forms
in
Romance
languages;
for
example,
Spanish
merced
originally
carried
the
sense
of
reward
or
favor
and
today
also
means
mercy
or
favor
in
general
usage,
as
in
the
religious
title
Nuestra
Señora
de
la
Merced.
The
word
survives
in
scholarly
discussions
of
Latin
vocabulary
and
in
studies
of
the
development
of
Romance
lexicon,
though
the
Latin
form
mercedem
is
not
in
continuous
common
use
in
modern
languages
outside
historical
or
philological
contexts.