# merito
## Esperanto
### Etymology

meriti +‎ -o

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [meˈrito]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ito
* Hyphenation: me‧ri‧to

### Noun

merito (accusative singular meriton, plural meritoj, accusative plural meritojn)
* merit, worth
    Li akiris meriton, servante la patrujon.He gained merit by serving the motherland.

## Ido
### Noun

merito (plural meriti)
* merit

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɛ.ri.to/
* Rhymes: -ɛrito
* Hyphenation: mè‧ri‧to

### Etymology 1

From Latin meritus, perfect passive participle of mereō (“to earn, deserve”).

#### Adjective

merito (feminine merita, masculine plural meriti, feminine plural merite) (obsolete, literary)
* deserved
* (rare) deserving, worthy

##### Derived terms

* meritamente

### Etymology 2

From Latin meritum (“merit”, “deserts”), from a noun use of the neuter form of meritus.

#### Alternative forms

* merto (poetic)

#### Noun

merito m (plural meriti)
* merit

##### Related terms

* in merito a
* meritamente
* meritare
* meritevole
* meritocrazia
* meritorio

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

merito
* first-person singular present indicative of meritare

### Anagrams

* Ermito, Retimo, mirteo, mitreo, morite, remoti, romite, timore

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈme.ri.toː/, [ˈmɛrɪt̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈme.ri.to/, [ˈmɛːrit̪o]

### Etymology 1

From the Old Latin meritod, mereto, meretod.

#### Adverb

meritō (comparative meritius, superlative meritissimō)
* according to desert, deservedly, justly, justifiably, worthily, fitly
* with good reason, appropriately, correctly, properly, rightly, suitably, as a natural consequence

#### References

* “mĕrĭtō¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* 1 mĕrĭtō in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “970/2”
* “meritō¹” on page 1,103 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

### Etymology 2

mereō (“I earn”) +‎ -itō (suffix forming frequentative verbs)

#### Verb

meritō (present infinitive meritāre, perfect active meritāvī, supine meritātum); first conjugation
* to earn a salary or regular wage
* to serve as a soldier in exchange for a salary

##### Descendants

* → Corsican: mirità, merità
* → French: mériter
* → Friulian: mertâ
* → Italian: meritare
* → Occitan: meritar, ameritar
* → Piedmontese: merité
* → Romansch: meritar, maritar, miritar, meriter
* → Sardinian: meritai, meritare
* → Sicilian: miritari
* → Spanish: meritar
* → Venetan: meritar

#### References

* “mĕrĭto²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “merito”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* 2 mĕrĭto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “970/2”
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. (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)
* “meritō²” on page 1,103/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
* https://outils.biblissima.fr/en/collatinus-web/
* https://glosbe.com/la/en/merito
* https://logeion.uchicago.edu/morpho/merito

### Etymology 3

Regularly declined forms of meritus.

#### Participle

meritō
* dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of meritus

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

meritō n
* dative/ablative singular of meritum (“merit”)

### Anagrams

* metior

## Spanish
### Verb

merito
* first-person singular present indicative of meritar