immeritus
Latin
Alternative forms
- inmeritus
Etymology
From in- (“not”) + meritus (“merited, earned, deserved”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /imˈme.ri.tus/, [ɪmˈmɛrɪt̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /imˈme.ri.tus/, [imˈmɛːrit̪us]
Adjective
immeritus (feminine immerita, neuter immeritum); first/second-declension adjective
- unmerited, unearned, undeserved
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | immeritus | immerita | immeritum | immeritī | immeritae | immerita | |
| Genitive | immeritī | immeritae | immeritī | immeritōrum | immeritārum | immeritōrum | |
| Dative | immeritō | immeritō | immeritīs | ||||
| Accusative | immeritum | immeritam | immeritum | immeritōs | immeritās | immerita | |
| Ablative | immeritō | immeritā | immeritō | immeritīs | |||
| Vocative | immerite | immerita | immeritum | immeritī | immeritae | immerita | |
Synonyms
- (undeserving, innocent): immerēns
Derived terms
- immeritō
Related terms
- immerēns
- immerenter
- immeritōrius
- merenda
- merendārius
- merendō
- merēns
- mereō
- meretrīcābilis
- meretrīciē
- meretrīcius
- meretrīcor
- meretrīcula
- meretrīx
- meritō
- meritōrius
- meritum
- meritus
Descendants
- Spanish: inmérito
References
- “immeritus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “immeritus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- immeritus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) and rightly too: neque immerito (iniuria)
- (ambiguous) and rightly too: neque id immerito (iniuria)
- (ambiguous) and rightly too: neque immerito (iniuria)