merus

From Ancient Greek μηρός (mērós, “thigh”).

merus (plural meri)

1. (rare, obsolete) The thigh. [18th–19th c.]
2. (zoology) The meropodite; the first segment of the raptorial appendage of a crustacean. [from 19th c.]
3. (architecture) The plane surface between the channels of a triglyph. [from 19th c.]

• meral

• Esrum, Mureș, Muser, Remus, Sumer, mures, murse, muser, resum, semur, serum

From Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to sparkle, glimmer, gleam”); see also Ancient Greek μαρμαίρω (marmaírō), Sanskrit मरीचि (marīci, “beam, ray”), Old Irish emer, and Old English āmerian (“to purify”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.rus/, [ˈmɛrʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.rus/, [ˈmɛːrus]

merus (feminine mera, neuter merum); first/second-declension adjective

1. sheer, undiluted, pure (especially of wine)

First/second-declension adjective.

• merum imperium

• Catalan: mer
• Old French: mier
  • → Middle English: mere, mer
    • English: mere
• Italian: mero
• Portuguese: mero
• Spanish: mero

• “merus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “merus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• merus 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)
• merus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “merus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly