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“merda” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
“merda” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“merda” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
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?
“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’s 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.