merito

meriti +‎ -o

• IPA^(key): /meˈrito/

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• Rhymes: -ito
• Syllabification: me‧ri‧to

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

1. merit, worth

   Li akiris meriton, servante la patrujon.

   He gained merit by serving the motherland.

merito (plural meriti)

1. merit

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.ri.to/
• Rhymes: -ɛrito
• Hyphenation: mè‧ri‧to

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

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

1. deserved
2. (rare) deserving, worthy

• meritamente

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

• merto (poetic)

merito m (plural meriti)

1. merit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

merito

1. first-person singular present indicative of meritare

• Ermito, Retimo, mirteo, mitreo, morite, remoti, romite, timore

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛ.rɪ.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛː.ri.to]

Inherited from Old Latin meritōd, meretō, meretōd, an adverbial ablative from meritum (“merit”). Cognate with Faliscan 𐌌𐌄𐌓𐌄𐌕𐌏 (mereto).

meritō (superlative meritissimō)

1. according to desert, deservedly, justly, justifiably, worthily, fitly
2. with good reason, appropriately, correctly, properly, rightly, suitably, as a natural consequence
3. (Epigraphic Latin) (in votive offerings, often with libēns, abbreviated to L⸱M)
   • Latin Inscriptions, Orelli 4918:

     AESCULAPIO
     ET⸱YGIAE
     DOMINIS
     P(VBLIVS)⸱AELIVS
     PHILETVS
     V(OTVM)⸱S(OLVIT)⸱L(AETVS)⸱L(IBENS)⸱M(ERITO)

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

From mereō (“to earn”) +‎ -tō (forming frequentative verbs).

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

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

• Asturian: ameritar
• → Corsican: mirità, merità
• → French: mériter
• → Friulian: mertâ
• → Italian: meritare
• → Occitan: meritar, ameritar
• → Piedmontese: merité
• → Romansh: meritar, maritar, miritar, meriter
• → Sardinian: meritai, meritare
• → Sicilian: miritari
• → Spanish: meritar
• → Venetan: meritar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

meritō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of meritus

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

meritō n

1. dative/ablative singular of meritum (“merit”)

• “mĕrĭtō 1”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mĕrĭtō 1”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “970/2”
• “meritō 1” on page 1,103 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• “mĕrĭto 2”, 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
• “mĕrĭto 2”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “970/2”
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], 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)
    
• “meritō 2” on page 1,103/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• merito, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

• metior

merito

1. first-person singular present indicative of meritar