commereo
Latin
Alternative forms
- (deponent form) commereor
Etymology
From con- + mereō (“earn, merit, deserve”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /komˈme.re.oː/, [kɔmˈmɛreoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /komˈme.re.o/, [komˈmɛːreo]
Verb
commereō (present infinitive commerēre, perfect active commeruī, supine commeritum); second conjugation
- I merit or deserve (fully).
- (with culpam) I err in, commit an offence or crime, perpetrate; I am guilty of.
Conjugation
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References
- “commereo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “commereo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- commereo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.