The corpus record — Latin

demereo

demereo · v. a

to merit, deserve a thing

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Where it lives

Otho 1 · 6.34/10k
Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
De Patientia 1 · 2.21/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
Pseudolus 1 · 0.9/10k
Silvae 2 · 0.8/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
De Beneficiis 3 · 0.66/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 3 1 · 0.5/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dē-mĕrĕo — Lewis & Short

dē-mĕrĕo, ŭi, ĭtum, 2, v. a.

I With acc. rei, to merit, deserve a thing (ante-and post-class., and very rare): aliquid mercedis domino, Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 90: grandem pecuniam, Gell. 1, 8, 3: demeritae laetitiae, Plaut. Ps. 2, 4, 14.—

II (Since the Aug. per.) With acc. pers., to deserve well of, to oblige: avunculum magnopere, Suet. Aug. 8: nec tibi sit servos demeruisse pudor, Ov. A. A. 2, 252: crimine te potui demeruisse meo, id. Her. 2, 28: matrona amoenitate aliqua demerenda erit, Col. 1, 4, 8. In this signif. usually in the deponent form, dē-mĕrĕor (not ante-Aug.): ut pleniori obsequio demererer amantissimos meos, Quint. prooem. § 3; so, Pompeium et Caesarem, quorum nemo alterum offendere audebat, nisi ut alterum demereretur, simul provocavit, lay under obligation, Sen. Ep. 104, 33; id. Ben. 1, 2, 5: demerendi beneficio tam potentem civitatem occasio, Liv. 3, 18: in Regulo demerendo, Plin. Ep. 4, 2, 4; Suet. Vit. 2; id. Oth. 4; Quint. 9, 2, 29; Tac. A. 15, 21 al.

In the wild

demerendo Tertullian, Apologeticum 18.3
demeruisse Seneca, De Beneficiis 2.24.1
demeritas Plautus, Pseudolus 2.4
demerenda Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1.4.8
demerendi Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.3.18.3
demereretur Suetonius, Divus Vespasianus 2.3.p2

6 of 26 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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