méreo

méreo, merére, mérui, méritum

verb, 2nd conjugation

mé-re-o · /ˈmɛ.rɛ.ɔ/

to deserve, to be counted worthy, to earn

With an infinitive in liturgical Latin it usually means to be granted something rather than to have earned it: the soldier's sense of wages is the classical one, the sense of gift the Church's.

in English merit, meritorious, emeritus

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