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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μηρός (mērós, “thigh”).
Noun
merus (plural meri)
- (rare, obsolete) The thigh.
- (zoology) The meropodite; the first segment of the raptorial appendage of a crustacean.
- (architecture) The plane surface between the channels of a triglyph.
Derived terms
Anagrams
- Esrum, Mureș, Muser, Remus, Sumer, mures, murse, muser, resum, semur, serum
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to sparkle, glimmer, gleam”); see also Ancient Greek μαρμαίρω (marmaírō), Sanskrit मरीचि (marīci, “beam, ray”), Old Irish emer, and Old English āmerian (“to purify”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
merus (feminine mera, neuter merum); first/second-declension adjective
- sheer, undiluted, pure (especially of wine)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “merus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “merus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- merus 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)
- merus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “merus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly