merto
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Etymology
Syncopated form of merito.
Pronunciation
Noun
merto m (plural merti)
- (poetic) Alternative form of merito
- merit
- 1321, Dante Alighieri with Umberto Bosco and Giovanni Reggio, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition, Firenze: Le Monnier, published 1994, →ISBN, Canto IV, page 56, lines 46, 49-50:
- «Dimmi, maestro mio, dimmi, segnore», ¶ […] ¶ «uscicci mai alcuno, o per suo merto ¶ o per altrui, che poi fosse beato?»
- «Tell me, my Master, tell me, thou my Lord», ¶ […] ¶ «Came any one by his own merit hence, ¶ or by another's, who was blessed thereafter?»
- merit
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