mercede

mercede is a Latin form of merces, meaning “pay, wages, reward; price, cost”. It is the ablative singular feminine noun.

Found 162 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.31.4: Hi cum tantopere de potentatu inter se multos annos contenderent, factum esse uti ab Arvernis Sequanisque Germani mercede arcesserentur.

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 7.69.5: Mercede te vitia sollicitant; hic tibi gratis vivendum est. Vix effici toto saeculo potest, ut vitia tam longa licent …

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 6.17.13.1: quamquam ego mercéde huchue conductús tua

All forms of merces (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.