mero

From Spanish mero.

mero (plural meros)

1. Any of several large groupers of warm seas.

• mero de lo alto
• mero cabrolla

mero (plural meros)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Meropenem.

• mero motu (etymologically unrelated)

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

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

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• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia)

mero m (plural meros)

1. grouper

   Synonym: anfós

• mero de Nassau

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

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

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

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

1. (chemistry) -mer

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Unknown. Perhaps of local Celtic origin, related to *mrktilos (“speckled”) which originates a number of names of fish in Brittonic languages;^[1] in that case, from Proto-Indo-European *mergʷ- (“dark, coloured”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛɾo̝/

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

• mero de altura

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mero”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mero”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mero”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mero”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mero”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

mero (plural memero)

1. boy
2. bachelor

From meri (“sea”) +‎ -o.

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

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,

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

From Latin merus.

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

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

1. mere, pure, simple, sheer

• meramente

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

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

merō

1. dative/ablative singular of merum

merō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of merus

Cognates include Minica Huitoto mero and Nüpode Huitoto mero.

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: me‧ro

mero (collective meronɨaɨ)

1. collared peccary (Pecari tajacu)

• 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

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

mēro

1. more

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

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).

mēro

1. more

• Middle Low German: mêr
  • Low German: mehr

From Latin merus.

• Hyphenation: me‧ro

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

1. mere (no more than)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeɾo/

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• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: me‧ro

From Latin merus.

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

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

mero m (plural meros)

1. grouper (fish)

   Synonym: cherna

• → English: mero

• “mero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28