Where does “meritat” come from?
meritat (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...
meritat (Romanian): past participle of merita
Definitions
- past participle of merita
Ancestry of “meritat”, step by step
| 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... |