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(deponent form) mereor

From Proto-Italic *merēō, from earlier *merējō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mr̥-éh₁-yeti, from *(s)mer- (“to assign, allot”).

Cognate of Ancient Greek μέρος (méros, “share, portion”). See also Latin merx, Ancient Greek μείρομαι (meíromai, “to receive as one's portion or due”) and Hittite 𒈥𒀝𒍣 (mar-ak-zi /⁠marktsi⁠/, “to cut up, divide (a sacrifice), separate, unravel”).

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈme.re.oː/, [ˈmɛreoː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.re.o/, [ˈmɛːreo]

mereō (present infinitive merēre, perfect active meruī, supine meritum); second conjugation

to deserve, merit
to earn, get, obtain, acquire
Synonyms: acquīrō, adipīscor, cōnsequor, lucror, parō, pariō, impetrō, sūmō, emō, comparō, apīscor, obtineō, potior, inveniō, conciliō, nancīscor, colligō, alliciō

Antonym: āmittō
to serve, to render service to (with ablative of the person or thing interested)
Synonym: prōsum
to earn a living

(deserve): commereō, dignum esse
(obtain): adipīscor, cōnsequor, exōrō, impetrō, nancīscor

Italo-romance:
- Sicilian:
  Calabrese: merire
Gallo-Italic:
- Old Lombard: merir
Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: merir
  - Middle French: mérir
    - French: mérir (dialectal)
  - → English: merit
- Old Catalan: merir
Ibero-Romance:
- Old Spanish: merer
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *merēscere
- Gallo-Romance:
  - Catalan: merèixer
- Ibero-Romance:
  - Aragonese: mereixer, merexer
  - Asturian: merecer
  - Galician: merecer
  - Portuguese: merecer
  - Spanish: merecer
    - → Cebuano: mirisi
- Insular Romance:
  - Sardinian: merèschere, medèsciri, meresci, merèsciri, merèssere

“mereo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“mereo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
mereo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to merit thanks; to do a thankworthy action: gratiam mereri
- to deserve well at some one's hands; to do a service to..: bene, praeclare (melius, optime) mereri de aliquo
- to deserve ill of a person; to treat badly: male mereri de aliquo
- (ambiguous) to serve in the cavalry, infantry: equo, pedibus merere (Liv. 27. 11)
- (ambiguous) to serve: stipendia facere, merere
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