Where does “meritoso” come from?

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

meritoso (Italian): worthy, deserving

Definitions

  1. worthy, deserving

Ancestry of “meritoso”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianmeritodeserved; deserving, worthy; merit
2Latinmeritusearned, deserved, obtained, due, proper, right,...
3Latinmereōto deserve, merit
4Proto-Indo-European(s)mer-to fall into thinking, remember, care for; to...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European (s)mer- →Every word from Latin mereō →Every word from Latin meritus →