meritis

meritis is a Latin form of mereo, meaning “deserve, earn”.

It can also be a form of meritum, “merit, service, kindness; desert; (merito) deservedly”. It is the ablative plural neuter noun or dative plural neuter noun.

It can also be a form of mereor, “earn, deserve; serve (as a soldier); (meritus) deserved”.

Found 220 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.27.11: quod cum faciat, et civitati sese consulere, quod hibernis levetur, et Caesari pro eius meritis gratiam referre. Hac oratione habita discedit Ambiorix.

Vergil, Aeneid 11.179: quam debere vides. Meritis vacat hic tibi solus

Plautus, Mercator 1.1.105: dico eius pro méritis gratum me et munem fore.

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.