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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /məritus/
- Hyphenation: me‧ri‧tus
Noun
meritus
- Alternative form of maritus
Esperanto
Verb
meritus
- conditional of meriti
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of mereō (“earn, deserve, merit”).
Pronunciation
Participle
meritus (feminine merita, neuter meritum, adverb meritō); first/second-declension participle
- earned, deserved, obtained, due, proper, right, having been earned, merited
- deserving, meritorious
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
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)