emeritus

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin emeritus.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: e‧me‧ri‧tus
• Rhymes: -ɛɹətəs

Adjective

emeritus (not comparable)

1. Retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title (especially "professor").

Translations

retired but retaining an honorific version of previous title

• Catalan: emèrit
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 名譽退休／名誉退休, 名誉退休 (míngyùtuìxiū)

• Czech: emeritní (cs)
• Finnish: emeritus (fi)
• French: émérite (fr)
• German: emeritiert (de)
• Hebrew: בדימוס (he) (b'dimos)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: emeritus (hu), nyugalmazott (hu)
• Italian: emerito (it)
• Japanese: 名誉 (ja) (めいよ, meiyo)
• Portuguese: emérito (pt)
• Spanish: emérito (es)
• Tagalog: higlingkurin
• West Frisian: emearitus

Noun

emeritus (plural emeriti, feminine emerita)

1. A person retired in this sense.
   • 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:

     Oh, you veteran crime reporter, you grave old usher, you once popular policeman, now in solitary confinement after gracing that school crossing for years, you wretched emeritus read to by a boy!

Related terms

• emerita
• emeritum
• emeritate

Anagrams

• semitrue, user time

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German

Etymology

From Latin emeritus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [eˈmeːʀitʊs]
• Hyphenation: eme‧ri‧tus

• Audio:

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Adjective

emeritus (not comparable)

1. emeritus

Further reading

• “emeritus” in Duden online

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Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of ēmereō (“earn, merit”).

Participle

ēmeritus (feminine ēmerita, neuter ēmeritum); first/second-declension participle

1. earned, merited, having been earned.
2. served, having done one's service.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ēmeritus	ēmerita	ēmeritum		ēmeritī	ēmeritae	ēmerita
Genitive	ēmeritī	ēmeritae	ēmeritī		ēmeritōrum	ēmeritārum	ēmeritōrum
Dative	ēmeritō		ēmeritō		ēmeritīs
Accusative	ēmeritum	ēmeritam	ēmeritum		ēmeritōs	ēmeritās	ēmerita
Ablative	ēmeritō	ēmeritā	ēmeritō		ēmeritīs
Vocative	ēmerite	ēmerita	ēmeritum		ēmeritī	ēmeritae	ēmerita

Descendants

• Catalan: emèrit
• English: emeritus
• Italian: emerito
• Portuguese: emérito
• Spanish: emérito, Mérida

References

• “emeritus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “emeritus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• emeritus 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)
• emeritus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.