merito

See also: mérito, meritó, and meritò

Esperanto

Etymology

meriti +‎ -o

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meˈrito/

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

Noun

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.

Ido

Noun

merito (plural meriti)

1. merit

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

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

1. deserved
2. (rare) deserving, worthy

Derived terms

• meritamente

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

• merto (poetic)

Noun

merito m (plural meriti)

1. merit

Related terms

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

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

merito

1. first-person singular present indicative of meritare

Anagrams

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

Latin

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From the Old Latin meritod, mereto, meretod.

Adverb

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

References

• “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)

Etymology 2

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

Verb

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

Conjugation

   Conjugation of meritō (first conjugation)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	meritō		meritās		meritat		meritāmus		meritātis		meritant
	imperfect	meritābam		meritābās		meritābat		meritābāmus		meritābātis		meritābant
	future	meritābō		meritābis		meritābit		meritābimus		meritābitis		meritābunt
	perfect	meritāvī		meritāvistī		meritāvit		meritāvimus		meritāvistis		meritāvērunt, meritāvēre
	pluperfect	meritāveram		meritāverās		meritāverat		meritāverāmus		meritāverātis		meritāverant
	future perfect	meritāverō		meritāveris		meritāverit		meritāverimus		meritāveritis		meritāverint
passive	present	meritor		meritāris, meritāre		meritātur		meritāmur		meritāminī		meritantur
	imperfect	meritābar		meritābāris, meritābāre		meritābātur		meritābāmur		meritābāminī		meritābantur
	future	meritābor		meritāberis, meritābere		meritābitur		meritābimur		meritābiminī		meritābuntur
	perfect	meritātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	meritātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	meritātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	meritem		meritēs		meritet		meritēmus		meritētis		meritent
	imperfect	meritārem		meritārēs		meritāret		meritārēmus		meritārētis		meritārent
	perfect	meritāverim		meritāverīs		meritāverit		meritāverīmus		meritāverītis		meritāverint
	pluperfect	meritāvissem		meritāvissēs		meritāvisset		meritāvissēmus		meritāvissētis		meritāvissent
passive	present	meriter		meritēris, meritēre		meritētur		meritēmur		meritēminī		meritentur
	imperfect	meritārer		meritārēris, meritārēre		meritārētur		meritārēmur		meritārēminī		meritārentur
	perfect	meritātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	meritātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		meritā		—		—		meritāte		—
	future	—		meritātō		meritātō		—		meritātōte		meritantō
passive	present	—		meritāre		—		—		meritāminī		—
	future	—		meritātor		meritātor		—		—		meritantor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		meritāre			meritārī			meritāns			—
future		meritātūrum esse			meritātum īrī			meritātūrus			meritandus
perfect		meritāvisse			meritātum esse			—			meritātus
future perfect		—			meritātum fore			—			—
perfect potential		meritātūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		meritandī		meritandō		meritandum		meritandō		meritātum		meritātū

Descendants

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

References

• “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^[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)
    
• “meritō²” on page 1,103/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• https://outils.biblissima.fr/en/collatinus-web/
• https://glosbe.com/la/en/merito
• https://logeion.uchicago.edu/morpho/merito

Etymology 3

Regularly declined forms of meritus.

Participle

meritō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of meritus

Etymology 4

Noun

meritō n

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

Anagrams

• metior

Spanish

Verb

merito

1. first-person singular present indicative of meritar