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Mercedes
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mercedes Mercédès
English
Etymology
From en es Mercedes en Mary, Our Lady of Mercy. The car was named for Mercédès Jellinek, the daughter of Austrian businessman Emil Jellinek who ordered 36 cars from Gottlieb Daimler.2001-10-19 Her Name Still Rings A Bell Michelle Krebs New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/19/automobiles/her-name-still-rings-a-bell.html Jellinek agreed to order 36 cars if they bore the name of his daughter -- and if the factory gave him an exclusive sales agency for America and parts of Europe. Daimler agreed. https://web.archive.org/web/20231024121622/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/19/automobiles/her-name-still-rings-a-bell.html 24 October 2023
Pronunciation
en /məˈseɪdiz/ RP
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Mercedes.wav Southern England
en /mɚˈseɪdiz/ GA
Proper noun
~ *
en female Spanish Mercy occasionally borrowed from Spanish.
en 2010 The Aztec Bill Vidal 73 Mercedes moved away from Jack and gripping Rosa's hand – her own nails were too short – she took a pinch and inhaled it. Rosa kissed Mercedes on the lips then took a further nailful and offered it to Jack who shook his head.
A place name:
en city p:suf/Buenos Aires c/Argentina.
en city/capital dept/Mercedes p:suf/Corrientes c/Argentina.
en department p:suf/Corrientes c/Argentina.
en district can/Heredia p:suf/Heredia c/Costa Rica.
en municipality in p:suf/Camarines Norte c/Philippines.
en municipality in p:suf/Eastern Samar c/Philippines.
en city co/Hidalgo County s/Texas c/USA.
en city/capital dept/Soriano c/Uruguay.
Derived terms
en Mercedes La Ceiba Mercedes Umaña San Miguel de Mercedes Villa Mercedes
Translations
female given name
Arabic:
Hijazi Arabic: acw مرسيدس f marsīdis
Catalan: ca Mercè f
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 梅塞德絲 Méisāidésī
Finnish: fi Mercedes
Hindi: hi मर्सिडीज़
Hungarian: hu Mercédesz
Marathi: mr मेर्सेदेस f
Polish: pl Mercedes f
Portuguese: pt
Russian: ru Мерсе́дес f Mɛrsɛ́dɛs
Spanish: es Mercedes f
Noun
* +
en Mercedes-Benz a car manufactured by Mercedes-Benz.
en Benz Mercedes-Benz
en w:Christopher Dickey At the Ali Baba Café Vanity Fair 52 11 New York, N.Y. The Condé Nast Publications Inc. November 1989 240 0733-8899 On a bridge that leads from Nile Street to the café in Tahrir Square where [Naguib] Mahfouz takes his morning coffee, there is often a beggar working his way among cars stuck in the city’s perpetual traffic jam. One of his legs is missing, and he hops up to the windows of the Mercedeses and Fiats on his remaining, bare foot.
en J. R. Ward [pseudonym; Jessica Rowley Pell Bird Blakemore] 31 The Bourbon Kings New York, N.Y. w:New American Library July 2015 273 https://archive.org/details/bourbonkings0000ward_e8k7/page/273/mode/1up 978-0-451-47526-8 Samuel T. blew off the line-up of sheep at the base of Easterly’s hill, shooting his Jag around the Mercedeses, Audis, Porsches, and limos, and waving at the parkers who tried to flag him down so he’d stop.
en w:Keith Gessen A Terrible Country: A Novel New York, N.Y. Viking 2018 322 https://archive.org/details/terriblecountryn0000gess/page/322/mode/1up 9780735221314 Anton and I saw each of them pull up in their Mercedeses and BMWs and park quasi-legally within a convenient distance of the diner.
Derived terms
en Merc abbreviation
Translations
short form of Mercedes Benz
Arabic:
Hijazi Arabic: acw مرسيدس f marsīdis
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 奔馳 Bēnchí, cmn 賓士 Bīnshì, cmn 平治 Píngzhì, cmn 朋馳 Péngchí
Finnish: fi Mersu
French: fr Mercedes f Europe, fr Mercedes m Canada, fr Merco f slang, France
Galician: gl Mercedes m
Georgian: ka მერსედესი
German: de Mercedes m
Hindi: hi मर्सिडीज़
Italian: it Mercedes m
Japanese: ja メルセデス Merusedesu, ja ベンツ Bentsu
Korean: ko ^메르세데스, ko ^벤츠
Macedonian: mk Мерце́дес m, mk мечка f Ме́чка, mk Ме́рџо n
Malay:
Pattani Malay: mfa Mecedih
Marathi: mr मर्सिडीझ f
Polish: pl Mercedes m
Portuguese: pt Mercedes
Romanian: ro Mercedes n, ro merțan n slang
Russian: ru Мерседе́с m Mɛrsɛdɛ́s, ru Мерс m colloquial
Serbo-Croatian: sh Mercedes m
Swedish: sv Merca
Turkish: tr Mercedes
Vietnamese: vi Mẹc-xe-đét
References
en eponyms
en Automobiles
French
Etymology
fr :bor es:Mercedes
fr es Mercedes.
Pronunciation
Mercédèsse
fr /mɛːʁsedaɪ̯s/ Quebec
Noun
mf
en Mercedes car manufactured by Mercedes-Benz
Derived terms
fr Merco abbreviation
Proper noun
f
fr Mercédès
German
Etymology
de Mercedes-Benz.
Pronunciation
de /mɛʁˈt͡seːdəs/
de De-Mercedes.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
de Mer ce des
Noun
m,-,se
de automotive Mercedes car manufactured by Mercedes-Benz
de Benz
de by extension informal cream of the crop
de Karl Wolfgang Biehusen Baedeker Reiseführer Madrid 2013 Baedeker https://books.google.com/books?id=zFxUAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA93&dq=%22Mercedes+unter+den%22&hl=en&cd=9&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Mercedes%20unter%20den%22&f=false 978-3-8297-1418-1 93 Der Mercedes unter den spanischen Schinken ist der Ibérico de Bellota.
de Jens Spahn, but only indirectly Jens Spahn (CDU): Moderna als »guter, sicherer und sehr wirksamer Impfstoff« Der Spiegel 2021-11-22 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/jens-spahn-cdu-moderna-als-guter-sicherer-und-sehr-wirksamer-impfstoff-a-a156362f-a9ea-400e-8969-0b03e6fa9799 2195-1349 Die Vakzine von Biontech sei der Mercedes und die von Moderna der Rolls-Royce. https://web.archive.org/web/20250819104606/https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/jens-spahn-cdu-moderna-als-guter-sicherer-und-sehr-wirksamer-impfstoff-a-a156362f-a9ea-400e-8969-0b03e6fa9799 19 August 2025
Biontech's vaccine is the Mercedes and Moderna's the Rolls-Royce.
Declension
m,-,se
de eponyms
Portuguese
Etymology
pt :ellipsis Mercedes-Benz + 1
Pronunciation
Mercêdes
pt Mer ce des
Noun
mf
pt automotive Mercedes car manufactured by Mercedes-Benz
Spanish
Etymology
es :from mercedes<t:mercies> +
From es mercedes mercies, shortened from María (de las) Mercedes, a Roman Catholic epithet of the Virgin Mary as "Our Lady of Mercy".
Pronunciation
Proper noun
f
es female Mercy Mary, Our Lady of Mercy
es city p:suf/Buenos Aires c/Argentina Mercedes.
es city/capital dept/Mercedes p:suf/Corrientes c/Argentina Mercedes.
es department p:suf/Corrientes c/Argentina Mercedes.
es district can/Heredia p:suf/Heredia c/Costa Rica Mercedes.
es city/capital dept/Soriano c/Uruguay Mercedes.
Descendants
en Mercedes 1
fr Mercédès 1 1
de Mercedes 1
tl Mercedes 1
Tagalog
Etymology
tl :bor es:Mercedes ++ ++
Pronunciation
Proper noun
+
tl female Spanish
tl mun p/Camarines Norte c/Philippines
tl mun p/Eastern Samar c/Philippines
Related terms
tl brazo de Mercedes