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English
Etymology
From Spanish Mercedes (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.[1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Mercedes (countable and uncountable, plural Mercedes)
- A female given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Mercy occasionally borrowed from Spanish.
- A place name:
- A city in Buenos Aires province, Argentina.
- A city, the capital of the Mercedes department, Corrientes province, Argentina.
- A department of Corrientes province, Argentina.
- A district of Heredia canton, Heredia province, Costa Rica.
- A municipality in Camarines Norte province, Philippines.
- A municipality in Eastern Samar province, Philippines.
- A city in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States.
- A city, the capital of the Soriano department, Uruguay.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
Mercedes (plural Mercedes or Mercedeses)
- Clipping of Mercedes-Benz, a car manufactured by Mercedes-Benz.
- Synonyms: Benz, Mercedes-Benz
1989 November, Christopher Dickey, “At the Ali Baba Café”, in Vanity Fair, volume 52, number 11, New York, N.Y.: The Condé Nast Publications Inc., →ISSN, page 240:On a bridge that leads from Nile Street to the café in Tahrir Square where 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.
2015 July, J. R. Ward [pseudonym; Jessica Rowley Pell Bird Blakemore], chapter 31, in The Bourbon Kings, New York, N.Y.: New American Library, →ISBN, page 273: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.
2018, Keith Gessen, A Terrible Country: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 322: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.
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References
- ^ Michelle Krebs (2001 October 19) “Her Name Still Rings A Bell”, in New York Times: “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.”
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish Mercedes.
Pronunciation
Noun
Mercedes m or f (plural Mercedes)
- Mercedes (car manufactured by Mercedes-Benz)
Derived terms
Proper noun
Mercedes f
- Alternative spelling of Mercédès
German
Etymology
Ellipsis of Mercedes-Benz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɛʁˈt͡seːdəs/
- Hyphenation: Mer‧ce‧des
Noun
Mercedes m (strong, genitive Mercedes, plural Mercedesse)
- (automotive) Mercedes (car manufactured by Mercedes-Benz)
- Synonym: Benz
- (by extension, informal) cream of the crop
2013, Karl Wolfgang Biehusen, Baedeker Reiseführer Madrid, Baedeker, →ISBN, page 93:
2021 November 22, Jens Spahn, but only indirectly, quotee, “Jens Spahn (CDU): Moderna als »guter, sicherer und sehr wirksamer Impfstoff«”, in Der Spiegel, →ISSN:Die Vakzine von Biontech sei der Mercedes und die von Moderna der Rolls-Royce.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Biontech's vaccine is the Mercedes and Moderna's the Rolls-Royce.
Declension
Portuguese
Etymology
Ellipsis of Mercedes-Benz.
Pronunciation
Noun
Mercedes m or f (invariable)
- (automotive) Mercedes (car manufactured by Mercedes-Benz)
Spanish
Etymology
From mercedes (“mercies”), shortened from María (de las) Mercedes, a Roman Catholic epithet of the Virgin Mary as "Our Lady of Mercy".
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /meɾˈθedes/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /meɾˈsedes/
- Rhymes: -edes
- Syllabification: Mer‧ce‧des
Proper noun
Mercedes f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Mercy (Mary, Our Lady of Mercy)
Descendants