merito

meriti +‎ -o

• IPA^(key): [meˈrito]
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• Rhymes: -ito
• Hyphenation: 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

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

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) IPA^(key): /ˈme.ri.toː/, [ˈmɛrɪt̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.ri.to/, [ˈmɛːrit̪o]

From the Old Latin meritod, mereto, meretod.

meritō (comparative meritius, superlative meritissimō)

1. according to desert, deservedly, justly, justifiably
2. with good reason, appropriately, correctly, properly, rightly, suitably, as a natural consequence

• “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)

mereō (“I earn”) +‎ -itō (suffix 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

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

• “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, 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)

Regularly declined forms of meritus.

meritō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of meritus

meritō n

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

• metior

merito

1. first-person singular present indicative of meritar