merens - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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Present participle of mereō.
merēns (genitive merentis); third-declension one-termination participle
Occasionally in idiomatic expressions with de, such as bene de se merenti (“for acquitting himself well; well-deserving”).
Third-declension participle.
1When used purely as an adjective.
- Italian: benemerente
- “merens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “merens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- merens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.