Mercedes

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]

• (General American) IPA^(key): /mɚˈseɪdiz/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /məˈseɪdiz/

Mercedes (countable and uncountable, plural Mercedes)

1. A female given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Mercy occasionally borrowed from Spanish.
2. A place name:
   1. A city in Buenos Aires province, Argentina.
   2. A city, the capital of the Mercedes department, Corrientes province, Argentina.
   3. A department of Corrientes province, Argentina.
   4. A district of Heredia canton, Heredia province, Costa Rica.
   5. A municipality in Camarines Norte province, Philippines.
   6. A municipality in Eastern Samar province, Philippines.
   7. A city in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States.
   8. A city, the capital of the Soriano department, Uruguay.

• Villa Mercedes

Mercedes (plural Mercedes)

1. Clipping of Mercedes-Benz, a car manufactured by Mercedes-Benz.

   Synonyms: Benz, Mercedes-Benz

• Merc (abbreviation)

Borrowed from Spanish Mercedes.

• IPA^(key): /mɛʁ.se.dɛs/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /mɛːʁsedaɪ̯s/

Mercedes m or f (plural Mercedes)

1. Mercedes (car manufactured by Mercedes-Benz)

• Merco (abbreviation)

Mercedes f

1. Alternative spelling of Mercédès

Ellipsis of Mercedes-Benz.

• IPA^(key): /mɛʁˈt͡seːdəs/
• Hyphenation: Mer‧ce‧des

Mercedes m (strong, genitive Mercedes, plural Mercedesse)

1. (automotive) Mercedes (car manufactured by Mercedes-Benz)

   Synonym: Benz

2. (by extension, informal) cream of the crop
   • 2013, Karl Wolfgang Biehusen, Baedeker Reiseführer Madrid, Baedeker, →ISBN, page 93:

     Der Mercedes unter den spanischen Schinken ist der Ibérico de Bellota.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

   • 2021 November 22, quoting Jens Spahn, but only indirectly, “Jens Spahn (CDU): Moderna als »guter, sicherer und sehr wirksamer Impfstoff«”, in Der Spiegel‎, ISSN 2195-1349:

     Die Vakzine von Biontech sei der Mercedes und die von Moderna der Rolls-Royce.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

From mercedes (“mercies”), shortened from María (de las) Mercedes, a Roman Catholic epithet of the Virgin Mary as "Our Lady of Mercy".

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /meɾˈθedes/ [meɾˈθe.ð̞es]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /meɾˈsedes/ [meɾˈse.ð̞es]
• Rhymes: -edes
• Syllabification: Mer‧ce‧des

Mercedes f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Mercy (Mary, Our Lady of Mercy)

• → English: Mercedes
• → French: Mercédès, Mercedes
• → German: Mercedes