meruimus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →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;
pl. perf. act. ind. 1st
Examples
- T
Amphitruo
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...omnes quae loquar advortite. debetis velle quae velimus: meruimus et ego et pater de vobis et re publica..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...clamore flevi et: "Hoc, inquam, a diis meruimus, ut nos sola morte coniungerent? Sed non crudelis fortuna concedit..." - G
Liber IX
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...monumenti supervacua est; memoria nostri durabit, si vita meruimus.' An restrictius arbitraris per orbem terrarum legendum dare duraturam..."