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mererentur

Dictionary entries

  • mereo, merere, merui, meritus:

    Verb · 2nd conjugation

    Frequency:
    Very Frequent
    Dictionary:
    Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)

    = earn; deserve/merit/have right; win/gain/incur; earn soldier/whore pay, serve;

    Entry →
    pl. imperf. pass. subj. 3rd
  • mereor, mereri, meritus sum:

    Verb · 2nd conjugation · Deponent

    Frequency:
    Very Frequent
    Dictionary:
    Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)

    = earn; deserve/merit/have right; win/gain/incur; earn soldier/whore pay, serve;

    Entry →
    pl. imperf. subj. 3rd

Examples

  • M

    Liber XII

    Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES

    "...pessime de rebus humanis perductae in summum artes mererentur, si quod optimum, idem ultimum fuisset. XXIX. Adde quod..."
  • M

    Liber XI

    Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES

    "...sequebatur, si quando interventus aliquorum qui hunc honorem mererentur iterare declamationis partem coegisset. Nec est mendacio locus, salvis..."
  • G

    Liber I

    Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM

    "...probaretur, honoremque paucorum ceteri patienter et exspectarent et mererentur. Sed ut tunc communibus magis commodis quam privatae iactantiae..."
  • G

    Panegyricus

    Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)

    "...deterior esset conditio eorum, qui posteros habere nobiles mererentur, quam eorum, qui parentes habuissent? O de dignum..."

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