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meretur

meretur is a Latin form of mereo, meaning “deserve, earn”. It is the 3rd person singular present passive indicative.

Found 39 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to his brother Quintus 3.9.8: … sicurae servi non obsignavit; quas noluit eas obsignavit. nos modo valeamus. Ciceronem et ut rogas amo et ut meretur et debeo; dimitto autem a me et ut a magistris ne abducam et quod mater †Porcia† non discedit, sine qua edaci …

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 6.6.3: Meretur hanc curam longa mei caritate. Est mihi cum illo non sane paterna amicitia - neque enim esse potuit per meam …

All forms of mereo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.