merito
See also: mérito, meritó, and meritò
Esperanto
Etymology
meriti + -o
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [meˈrito]
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(file) - Rhymes: -ito
- Hyphenation: me‧ri‧to
Noun
merito (accusative singular meriton, plural meritoj, accusative plural meritojn)
- merit, worth
- Li akiris meriton, servante la patrujon.
- He gained merit by serving the motherland.
Ido
Noun
merito (plural meriti)
- merit
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.ri.to/
- Rhymes: -ɛrito
- Hyphenation: mè‧ri‧to
Etymology 1
From Latin meritus, perfect passive participle of mereō (“to earn, deserve”).
Adjective
merito (feminine merita, masculine plural meriti, feminine plural merite) (obsolete, literary)
- deserved
- (rare) deserving, worthy
Derived terms
- meritamente
Etymology 2
From Latin meritum (“merit”, “deserts”), from a noun use of the neuter form of meritus.
Alternative forms
- merto (poetic)
Noun
merito m (plural meriti)
- merit
Related terms
- in merito a
- meritamente
- meritare
- meritevole
- meritocrazia
- meritorio
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
merito
- first-person singular present indicative of meritare
Anagrams
- Ermito, Retimo, mirteo, mitreo, morite, remoti, romite, timore
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈme.ri.toː/, [ˈmɛrɪt̪oː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈme.ri.to/, [ˈmɛːrit̪o]
Etymology 1
From the Old Latin meritod, mereto, meretod.
Adverb
meritō (comparative meritius, superlative meritissimō)
- according to desert, deservedly, justly, justifiably
- with good reason, appropriately, correctly, properly, rightly, suitably, as a natural consequence
References
- “mĕrĭtō¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- 1 mĕrĭtō in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “970/2”
- “meritō¹” on page 1,103 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
Etymology 2
mereō (“I earn”) + -itō (suffix forming frequentative verbs)
Verb
meritō (present infinitive meritāre, perfect active meritāvī, supine meritātum); first conjugation
- I earn a salary or regular wage
- I serve as a soldier in exchange for a salary
Conjugation
| Conjugation of meritō (first conjugation) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | meritō | meritās | meritat | meritāmus | meritātis | meritant |
| imperfect | meritābam | meritābās | meritābat | meritābāmus | meritābātis | meritābant | |
| future | meritābō | meritābis | meritābit | meritābimus | meritābitis | meritābunt | |
| perfect | meritāvī | meritāvistī | meritāvit | meritāvimus | meritāvistis | meritāvērunt, meritāvēre | |
| pluperfect | meritāveram | meritāverās | meritāverat | meritāverāmus | meritāverātis | meritāverant | |
| future perfect | meritāverō | meritāveris | meritāverit | meritāverimus | meritāveritis | meritāverint | |
| passive | present | meritor | meritāris, meritāre | meritātur | meritāmur | meritāminī | meritantur |
| imperfect | meritābar | meritābāris, meritābāre | meritābātur | meritābāmur | meritābāminī | meritābantur | |
| future | meritābor | meritāberis, meritābere | meritābitur | meritābimur | meritābiminī | meritābuntur | |
| perfect | meritātus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | meritātus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | meritātus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | meritem | meritēs | meritet | meritēmus | meritētis | meritent |
| imperfect | meritārem | meritārēs | meritāret | meritārēmus | meritārētis | meritārent | |
| perfect | meritāverim | meritāverīs | meritāverit | meritāverīmus | meritāverītis | meritāverint | |
| pluperfect | meritāvissem | meritāvissēs | meritāvisset | meritāvissēmus | meritāvissētis | meritāvissent | |
| passive | present | meriter | meritēris, meritēre | meritētur | meritēmur | meritēminī | meritentur |
| imperfect | meritārer | meritārēris, meritārēre | meritārētur | meritārēmur | meritārēminī | meritārentur | |
| perfect | meritātus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | meritātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | meritā | — | — | meritāte | — |
| future | — | meritātō | meritātō | — | meritātōte | meritantō | |
| passive | present | — | meritāre | — | — | meritāminī | — |
| future | — | meritātor | meritātor | — | — | meritantor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | meritāre | meritāvisse | meritātūrum esse | meritārī | meritātum esse | meritātum īrī | |
| participles | meritāns | — | meritātūrus | — | meritātus | meritandus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| meritandī | meritandō | meritandum | meritandō | meritātum | meritātū | ||
Descendants
- → Corsican: mirità, merità
- → French: mériter
- → Friulian: mertâ
- → Italian: meritare
- → Occitan: meritar, ameritar
- → Piedmontese: merité
- → Romansch: meritar, maritar, miritar, meriter
- → Sardinian: meritai, meritare
- → Sicilian: miritari
- → Venetian: meritar
References
- “mĕrĭto²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “merito”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- 2 mĕrĭto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “970/2”
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) I had not deserved it: nullo meo merito
- (ambiguous) according to a man's deserts: ex, pro merito
- (ambiguous) quite rightly: et recte (iure, merito)
- (ambiguous) I had not deserved it: nullo meo merito
- “meritō²” on page 1,103/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
Etymology 3
Regularly declined forms of meritus.
Participle
meritō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of meritus
Noun
meritō
- dative/ablative singular of meritum
Anagrams
- metior
Spanish
Verb
merito
- first-person singular present indicative of meritar