mero

English

Etymology 1

Spanish mero

Noun

mero (plural meros)

1. Any of several large groupers of warm seas.

Related terms

• mero de lo alto
• mero cabrolla

Etymology 2

Noun

mero (plural meros)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Meropenem.

See also

• mero motu (etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

• -more, More, Omer, Orem, Orme, Rome, erom, moer, more, omer

Catalan

Etymology

Perhaps from Latin *merus, back-formation from merulus, variant of merula (“wrasse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian)

Noun

mero m (plural meros)

1. grouper

   Synonym: anfós

Derived terms

• mero de Nassau

Further reading

• “mero”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

Esperanto

Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek μέρος (méros, “part”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -ero
• Hyphenation: me‧ro

Noun

mero (accusative singular meron, plural meroj, accusative plural merojn)

1. (chemistry) -mer

Derived terms

Galician

Galician Wikipedia has an article on:

mero

Wikipedia ^gl

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps of local Celtic origin, related to *mrktilos (“speckled”) which originates a number of names of fish in Brittonic languages; in that case, from Proto-Indo-European *mergʷ- (“dark, coloured”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛɾo̝/

Noun

mero m (plural meros)

1. grouper (Epinephelus marginatus)

   Synonym: cherna

   • 1417, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 75:

     Iten a libra dos rodavallos et do mero a seis dineiros cada libra

     Item, the pound of turbots and of grouper fish, six diñeiros each pound

Derived terms

• mero de altura

References

• “mero” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “mero” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “mero” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “mero” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “mero” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Hiri Motu

Noun

mero (plural memero)

1. boy
2. bachelor

Ingrian

Etymology

From meri (“sea”) +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈmero/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈmeroi̯/,
• Rhymes: -ero, -eroi̯
• Hyphenation: me‧ro

Noun

mero

1. (folk poetic) Synonym of meri
   • 1915, Volmari Porkka, quoting Oute Loan kylästä, “1140. Soikkola, Tarinaisi, III2”, in Väinö Salminen, editor, Suomen Kansan Vanhat Runot. Länsi-Inkerin runot‎, volume III1, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, lines 9-10:

     Löysi mättään meroista // Yhen mättään sinniisen,

     She found a hillock in the sea // One blue hillock,

Declension

References

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 306

Italian

Etymology

From Latin merus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.ro/
• Rhymes: -ɛro
• Hyphenation: mè‧ro

Adjective

mero (feminine mera, masculine plural meri, feminine plural mere)

1. pure, simple, sheer

Derived terms

• meramente

Anagrams

• Remo, Rome, ermo, more, orme, remo, remò

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.roː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.ro/,

Noun

merō

1. dative/ablative singular of merum

Adjective

merō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of merus

Murui Huitoto

Etymology

Cognates include Minica Huitoto mero and Nüpode Huitoto mero.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: me‧ro

Noun

mero (collective meronɨaɨ)

1. collared peccary (Pecari tajacu)

Declension

References

• Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎ (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 177
• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎, Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 246

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *maiʀō, see also Old Saxon mēro, Old English māra, Dutch meer, Old Norse meiri, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌶𐌰 (maiza).

Adverb

mēro

1. more

Descendants

• Middle High German: mēr, mēre
  • Alemannic German: meer
  • German: mehr
  • Yiddish: מער (mer)

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *maiʀō (“more”), see also Old English māra, Old Frisian māra, Dutch meer, Old High German mēro, Old Norse meiri, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌶𐌰 (maiza).

Adverb

mēro

1. more

Descendants

• Low German: mehr

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin merus.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: me‧ro

Adjective

mero (feminine mera, masculine plural meros, feminine plural meras)

1. mere (no more than)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeɾo/
• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: me‧ro

Etymology 1

From Latin merus.

Adjective

mero (feminine mera, masculine plural meros, feminine plural meras)

1. mere

   la mera presencia de alguien ― someone's mere presence

   Lo enfurece la mera existencia de la cerveza sin alcohol.

   The mere existence of non-alcoholic beer infuriates him.

2. pure

   Synonym: puro

Etymology 2

Possibly loaned from Catalan nero, from Latin Nerō, compared to the Roman emperor for its fierceness. Compare Old Occitan mero(n).

Noun

mero m (plural meros)

1. grouper (fish)

Derived terms

Descendants

• → English: mero

Further reading

• “mero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014