meritus
Appearance
Brunei Malay
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]meritus
- Alternative form of maritus
Esperanto
[edit]Verb
[edit]meritus
- conditional of meriti
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perfect passive participle of mereō (“earn, deserve, merit”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈme.ri.tus/, [ˈmɛrɪt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈme.ri.tus/, [ˈmɛːrit̪us]
Participle
[edit]meritus (feminine merita, neuter meritum, adverb meritō); first/second-declension participle
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | meritus | merita | meritum | meritī | meritae | merita | |
genitive | meritī | meritae | meritī | meritōrum | meritārum | meritōrum | |
dative | meritō | meritae | meritō | meritīs | |||
accusative | meritum | meritam | meritum | meritōs | meritās | merita | |
ablative | meritō | meritā | meritō | meritīs | |||
vocative | merite | merita | meritum | meritī | meritae | merita |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Italian: merito
References
[edit]- “meritus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “meritus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- meritus 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)
- meritus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to show gratitude (in one's acts): gratiam alicui referre (meritam, debitam) pro aliqua re
- (ambiguous) I had not deserved it: nullo meo merito
- (ambiguous) according to a man's deserts: ex, pro merito
- (ambiguous) quite rightly: et recte (iure, merito)
- to show gratitude (in one's acts): gratiam alicui referre (meritam, debitam) pro aliqua re
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- Esperanto non-lemma forms
- Esperanto verb forms
- Latin 3-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Latin participles
- Latin perfect participles
- Latin first and second declension participles
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook