demereretur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →demereo, demerere, demeri, demeritus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
oblige, please, win the favor of; earn, merit, deserve (well of);
sg. imperf. pass. subj. 3rd - Entry →demereor, demereri, demeritus sum:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
oblige/please, win favor of; earn/merit, deserve (well of); lay under obligation
sg. imperf. subj. 3rd
Examples
- L
Libri XVII-XVIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...Caesarem, quorumnemo alterum offendere audebat nisi ut alterum demereretur, simul provocavit. Vides tam mortem posse contemni quam exilium..." - G
Divus Vespasianus
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...praetor infensum senatui Gaium ne quo non genere demereretur, ludos extraordinarios pro victoria eius Germanica depoposcit, poenaeque coniuratorum..." - G
Vitellius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...Claudium uxoribus libertisque addictum ne qua non arte demereretur, pro maximo numere a Messalina petit, ut sibi pedes..."