merecimiento
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From merecer (“to deserve”) + -miento.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /meɾeθiˈmjento/ [me.ɾe.θiˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /meɾesiˈmjento/ [me.ɾe.siˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -ento
- Syllabification: me‧re‧ci‧mien‧to
Noun
[edit]merecimiento m (plural merecimientos)
- merit, desert (that which is deserved)
- 1605, Miguel de Cervantes, “Capítulo I”, in El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, Primera parte:
- Los altos cielos que de vuestra divinidad divinamente con las estrellas os fortifican y os hacen merecedora del merecimiento que merece la vuestra grandeza...
- The high heavens, that of your divinity divinely fortify you with the stars, render you deserving of the desert your greatness deserves...
Further reading
[edit]- “merecimiento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10