mero

From Spanish mero.

mero (plural meros)

1. Any of several large groupers of warm seas.

• mero de lo alto
• mero cabrolla

mero (plural meros)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Meropenem.

• mero motu (etymologically unrelated)

• -more, More, Rome, Moré, omer, Omer, erom, Orme, moer, more, Orem

Perhaps from Latin *merus, back-formation from merulus, variant of merula (“wrasse”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈme.ɾu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈme.ɾo]

mero m (plural meros)

1. grouper

   Synonym: anfós

• mero de Nassau

• “mero”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

Derived from Ancient Greek μέρος (méros, “part”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmero/
• Rhymes: -ero
• Hyphenation: me‧ro

mero (accusative singular meron, plural meroj, accusative plural merojn)

1. (chemistry) -mer

Unknown. Perhaps of local Celtic origin, related to *mrktilos (“speckled”) which originates a number of names of fish in Brittonic languages;^[1] in that case, from Proto-Indo-European *mergʷ- (“dark, coloured”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛɾo̝/

mero m (plural meros)

1. grouper (Epinephelus marginatus)

   Synonym: cherna

   • 1417, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 75:

     Iten a libra dos rodavallos et do mero a seis dineiros cada libra

     Item, the pound of turbots and of grouper fish, six diñeiros each pound

• mero de altura

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mero”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mero”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mero”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mero”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mero”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

mero (plural memero)

1. boy
2. bachelor

From meri (“sea”) +‎ -o.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈmero/, [ˈme̞ro̞]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈmeroi̯/, [ˈme̞ro̞i̯]
• Rhymes: -ero, -eroi̯
• Hyphenation: me‧ro

mero

1. (folk poetic) synonym of meri
   • 1915, Volmari Porkka, quoting Oute Loan kylästä, “1140. Soikkola, Tarinaisi, III2”, in Väinö Salminen, editor, Suomen Kansan Vanhat Runot. Länsi-Inkerin runot‎^[1], volume III1, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, lines 9-10:

     Löysi mättään meroista // Yhen mättään sinniisen,

     She found a hillock in the sea // One blue hillock,

Declension of mero (type 4/koivu, no gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	mero	merot
genitive	meron	merroin, meroloin
partitive	merroa	meroja, meroloja
illative	merroo	merroi, meroloihe
inessive	meros	merois, merolois
elative	merost	meroist, meroloist
allative	merolle	meroille, meroloille
adessive	merol	meroil, meroloil
ablative	merolt	meroilt, meroloilt
translative	meroks	meroiks, meroloiks
essive	meronna, merroon	meroinna, meroloinna, merroin, meroloin
exessive1)	meront	meroint, meroloint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 306

From Latin merus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.ro/
• Rhymes: -ɛro
• Hyphenation: mè‧ro

mero (feminine mera, masculine plural meri, feminine plural mere)

1. mere, pure, simple, sheer

• meramente

• Remo, Rome, ermo, more, orme, remo, remò

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛ.roː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛː.ro]

merō

1. dative/ablative singular of merum

merō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of merus

Cognates include Minica Huitoto mero and Nüpode Huitoto mero.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛɾɔ]
• Hyphenation: me‧ro

mero (collective meronɨaɨ)

1. collared peccary (Pecari tajacu)

• Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎^[2] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 177
• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[3], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 246

From Proto-West Germanic *maiʀō, see also Old Saxon mēro, Old English māra, Dutch meer, Old Norse meiri, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌶𐌰 (maiza).

mēro

1. more

• Middle High German: mēr, mēre
  • Alemannic German: meer
  • German: mehr
  • Yiddish: מער (mer)

From Proto-West Germanic *maiʀō (“more”), see also Old English māra, Old Frisian māra, Dutch meer, Old High German mēro, Old Norse meiri, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌶𐌰 (maiza).

mēro

1. more

• Middle Low German: mêr
  • Low German: mehr

From Latin merus.

• Hyphenation: me‧ro

mero (feminine mera, masculine plural meros, feminine plural meras)

1. mere (no more than)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeɾo/ [ˈme.ɾo]

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• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: me‧ro

From Latin merus.

mero (feminine mera, masculine plural meros, feminine plural meras)

1. mere

   la mera presencia de alguien ― someone's mere presence

   Lo enfurece la mera existencia de la cerveza sin alcohol.

   The mere existence of non-alcoholic beer infuriates him.

2. pure

   Synonym: puro

Possibly loaned from Catalan nero, from Latin Nerō, compared to the Roman emperor for its fierceness. Compare Old Occitan mero(n).

mero m (plural meros)

1. grouper (fish)

   Synonym: cherna

• → English: mero

• “mero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024