meritus
Esperanto
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of mereō (“earn, deserve, merit”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈme.ri.tus/, [ˈmɛ.rɪ.tʊs]
Participle
meritus (feminine merita, neuter meritum, adverb meritō); first/second-declension participle
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | meritus | merita | meritum | meritī | meritae | merita | |
| Genitive | meritī | meritae | meritī | meritōrum | meritārum | meritōrum | |
| Dative | meritō | meritō | meritīs | ||||
| Accusative | meritum | meritam | meritum | meritōs | meritās | merita | |
| Ablative | meritō | meritā | meritō | meritīs | |||
| Vocative | merite | merita | meritum | meritī | meritae | merita | |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Italian: merito
References
- 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, 1883–1887)
- meritus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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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