Where does “meritare” come from?

meritare (Italian) comes from Latin meritāre, from Latin meritus, from Latin mereō, from Proto-Indo-European (s)mer- — to fall into thinking, remember, care for; to...

meritare (Italian): to deserve, merit; to be worth, to be worthing;...

Definitions

  1. to deserve, merit; to be worth, to be worthing;...

Ancestry of “meritare”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinmeritāre—
2Latinmeritusearned, deserved, obtained, due, proper, right,...
3Latinmereōto deserve, merit
4Proto-Indo-European(s)mer-to fall into thinking, remember, care for; to...

Words derived from “meritare”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European (s)mer- →Every word from Latin mereō →Every word from Latin meritus →