mereo
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (deponent form) mereor
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *merēō, from earlier *merējō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mr̥-éh₁-yeti, from *(s)mer- (“to assign, allot”).
Cognate of Ancient Greek μέρος (méros, “share, portion”). See also Latin merx, Ancient Greek μείρομαι (meíromai, “to receive as one's portion or due”) and Hittite 𒈥𒀝𒍣 (mar-ak-zi /marktsi/, “to cut up, divide (a sacrifice), separate, unravel”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈme.re.oː/, [ˈmɛreoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈme.re.o/, [ˈmɛːreo]
Verb
[edit]mereō (present infinitive merēre, perfect active meruī, supine meritum); second conjugation
- to deserve, merit
- to earn, get, obtain, acquire
- to serve, to render service to (with ablative of the person or thing interested)
- Synonym: prōsum
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.17:
- sic se complures anuos illo imperante meruisse
- that they had served to him for many years as commander
- sic se complures anuos illo imperante meruisse
- to earn a living
Conjugation
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[edit]- Italo-romance:
- Sicilian:
- Calabrese: merire
- Sicilian:
- Gallo-Italic:
- Old Lombard: merir
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *merēscere
- Sardinian:
References
[edit]- “mereo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mereo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mereo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to merit thanks; to do a thankworthy action: gratiam mereri
- to deserve well at some one's hands; to do a service to..: bene, praeclare (melius, optime) mereri de aliquo
- to deserve ill of a person; to treat badly: male mereri de aliquo
- (ambiguous) to serve in the cavalry, infantry: equo, pedibus merere (Liv. 27. 11)
- (ambiguous) to serve: stipendia facere, merere
- to merit thanks; to do a thankworthy action: gratiam mereri
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- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)mer- (allot)
- Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
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- Latin second conjugation verbs with perfect in -u-
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook