# mero
## English
### Etymology 1

From Spanish mero.

#### Noun

mero (plural meros)
* Any of several large groupers of warm seas.

##### Related terms

* mero de lo alto
* mero cabrolla

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

mero (plural meros)
* (medicine, colloquial) Meropenem.

### See also

* mero motu (etymologically unrelated)

### Anagrams

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

## Catalan
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈme.ɾu]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈme.ɾo]

### Noun

mero m (plural meros)
* grouper
    Synonym: anfós

#### Derived terms

* mero de Nassau

### Further reading

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

## Esperanto
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmero]
* Rhymes: -ero
* Hyphenation: me‧ro

### Noun

mero (accusative singular meron, plural meroj, accusative plural merojn)
* (chemistry) -mer

#### Derived terms

* dimero
* elastomero
* elastopolimero
* heteropolimero
* homopolimero
* malpolimerigi
* monomero
* oligomero
* polimerazo
* polimereco
* polimerigi
* polimero
* tetramero
* trimero

## Galician
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɛɾo̝/

### Noun

mero m (plural meros)
* 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

#### Derived terms

* mero de altura

### References

* 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
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “mero I”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Hiri Motu
### Noun

mero (plural memero)
* boy
* bachelor

## Ingrian
### Etymology

From meri (“sea”) +‎ -o.

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

mero
* (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, 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
### References

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

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin merus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɛ.ro/
* Rhymes: -ɛro
* Hyphenation: mè‧ro

### Adjective

mero (feminine mera, masculine plural meri, feminine plural mere)
* mere, pure, simple, sheer

#### Derived terms

* meramente

### Anagrams

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

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈme.roː/, [ˈmɛroː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈme.ro/, [ˈmɛːro]

### Noun

merō
* dative/ablative singular of merum

### Adjective

merō
* dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of merus

## Murui Huitoto

mero :
| Root | Classifier |
| mero- | — |

### Etymology

Cognates include Minica Huitoto mero and Nüpode Huitoto mero.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmɛɾɔ]
* Hyphenation: me‧ro

### Noun

mero (collective meronɨaɨ)
* collared peccary (Pecari tajacu)

#### Declension
### References

* Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎ (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.‎, Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 246

## Old High German
### Etymology

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

### Adverb

mēro
* more

#### Descendants

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

## Old Saxon
### Etymology

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).

### Adverb

mēro
* more

#### Descendants

* Middle Low German: mêr
** Low German: mehr

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Latin merus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɛ.ɾu/
* Hyphenation: me‧ro

### Adjective

mero (feminine mera, masculine plural meros, feminine plural meras)
* mere (no more than)

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmeɾo/ [ˈme.ɾo]
* Audio (Spain):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɾo
* Syllabification: me‧ro

### Etymology 1

From Latin merus.

#### Adjective

mero (feminine mera, masculine plural meros, feminine plural meras)
* 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.
* pure
    Synonym: puro

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

mero m (plural meros)
* grouper (fish)
    Synonym: cherna

##### Derived terms

* mero mero
* mero murique

##### Descendants

* → English: mero

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10