commereo
Latin
Alternative forms
- (deponent form) commereor
Etymology
From con- + mereō (“earn, merit, deserve”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔmˈmɛ.re.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [komˈmɛː.re.o]
Verb
commereō (present infinitive commerēre, perfect active commeruī, supine commeritum); second conjugation
- to merit or deserve (fully)
- (with culpam) to err in, commit an offence or crime, perpetrate; to be guilty of
Conjugation
Conjugation of commereō (second conjugation)
Related terms
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.