The corpus record — Latin

mereo

to earn, gain (act); to deserve (dep.)

Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited Latin corpus; none are written from memory.

Distribution

Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 10 · 38.05/10k
Praefatiunculae 2 · 36.5/10k
Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 3 · 35.29/10k
De Fide Catholica 6 · 31.12/10k
Iphicrates 1 · 24.45/10k
Ausonii Burdigalensis Vasatis Gratiarum Actio Ad Grati Angratianum Imperatorem Pro Consulatu 10 · 24.14/10k
Cato 1 · 23.36/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 19 · 22.5/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 3 · 21.71/10k
Avidius Cassius 5 · 19.17/10k
Phocion 1 · 18.76/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 18.25/10k

Densest 12 of 257 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

Senses

1. mereo — de Vaan

to earn, gain (act); to deserve (dep.)

2. mĕrĕo — Lewis & Short

to deserve, merit, to be entitled to, be worthy of

Attestations

meruerim Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.6.8
meruere Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.3.11
meritisque Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 16.12.64
meruit Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 17.9.6
meruit Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 17.10.4
meruit Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 17.12.14

6 of 2,385 attestations shown.

Deep etymology

Authority pointers, pending review

These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) scan p. 388; entry #1035 Review: Under source audit

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