merito

merito (accusative singular meriton, plural meritoj, accusative plural meritojn)

1. merit

merito (plural meriti)

1. merit

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.ri.to/, [ˈmɛːr̺it̪o]
• Rhymes: -ɛrito
• Stress: mèrito
• Hyphenation: me‧ri‧to

From Latin meritus, perfect passive participle of mereō (“I earn, deserve”).

merito (feminine singular merita, masculine plural meriti, feminine plural merite) (obsolete, literary)

1. deserved
2. (rare) deserving, worthy

From Latin meritum (“merit”, “deserts”), from a noun use of the neuter form of meritus.

• merto (poetic)

merito m (plural meriti)

1. merit

• in merito a
• meritamente
• meritare
• meritevole
• meritocrazia
• meritorio

See the etymology of the main entry.

merito

1. first-person singular present indicative of meritare

• morite, remoti, timore

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.ri.toː/, [ˈmɛ.rɪ.toː]

From the Old Latin meritod, mereto, meretod.

meritō (superlative meritissimō)

1. according to desert, deservedly, justly
2. with good reason, correctly, rightly, as a natural consequence

• mĕrĭtō¹ in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 1 mĕrĭtō in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette: “970/2”
• “meritō¹” on page 1,103 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

mereō (“I earn”) +‎ -itō (suffix forming frequentative verbs)

meritō (present infinitive meritāre, perfect active meritāvī, supine meritātum); first conjugation

1. I earn a salary or regular wage
2. I serve as a soldier in exchange for a salary

• mĕrĭto² in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• merito in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• 2 mĕrĭto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette: “970/2”
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (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)
    
• “meritō²” on page 1,103/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Regularly declined forms of meritus.

meritō

1. inflection of meritus:
   1. dative masculine and neuter singular
   2. ablative masculine singular
   3. ablative neuter plural

merito

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of meritar.