meritus

• IPA^(key): /məritus/
• Hyphenation: me‧ri‧tus

meritus

1. alternative form of maritus

meritus

1. conditional of meriti

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

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

meritus (feminine merita, neuter meritum, adverb meritō); first/second-declension participle

1. earned, deserved, obtained, due, proper, right, having been earned, merited
2. deserving, meritorious

First/second-declension adjective.

• meritō

• Italian: merito

• “meritus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “meritus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "meritus", 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)
• meritus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to show gratitude (in one's acts): gratiam alicui referre (meritam, debitam) pro aliqua re
    
  • (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)