Where does “binemerita” come from?
binemerita (Romanian) comes from Romanian merita, from French mériter, from French mérite, from Latin meritum, from Latin meritus, from Latin mereō, from Proto-Indo-European (s)mer- — to fall into thinking, remember, care for; to...
binemerita (Romanian): to deserve
Definitions
- to deserve
Ancestry of “binemerita”, step by step
binemerita traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Romanian merita
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | merita | to deserve |
| 2 | French | mériter | to deserve, merit |
| 3 | French | mérite | merit; first-person singular present indicative... |
| 4 | Latin | meritum | merit, service, deserts; value, reward, benefit,... |
| 5 | Latin | meritus | earned, deserved, obtained, due, proper, right,... |
| 6 | Latin | mereō | to deserve, merit |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)mer- | to fall into thinking, remember, care for; to... |
via Romanian bine
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | bine | well; handsome; good |
| 2 | Latin | bene | well; properly, exactly; agreeably, favorably |
| 3 | Latin | bonus | good, honest, brave, noble, kind, pleasant;... |
| 4 | Old Latin | duenos | Alternative form of duonus |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | dwenos | good |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | dew- | to show favour, revere; to fail, to lag, to be... |