meritus

meritus

Brunei Malay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məritus/
• Hyphenation: me‧ri‧tus

Noun

meritus

1. Alternative form of maritus

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Esperanto

Verb

meritus

1. conditional of meriti

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Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of mereō (“earn, deserve, merit”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.ri.tus/, [ˈmɛrɪt̪ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.ri.tus/, [ˈmɛːrit̪us]

Participle

meritus (feminine merita, neuter meritum, adverb meritō); first/second-declension participle

1. earned, deserved, obtained, due, proper, right, having been earned
2. deserving, meritorious

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	meritus	merita	meritum		meritī	meritae	merita
Genitive	meritī	meritae	meritī		meritōrum	meritārum	meritōrum
Dative	meritō		meritō		meritīs
Accusative	meritum	meritam	meritum		meritōs	meritās	merita
Ablative	meritō	meritā	meritō		meritīs
Vocative	merite	merita	meritum		meritī	meritae	merita

Derived terms

• meritō

Descendants

• Italian: merito

References

• “meritus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “meritus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• meritus 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)
• meritus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to show gratitude (in one's acts): gratiam alicui referre (meritam, debitam) pro aliqua re
    
  • (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)