promereo Latin · revision 36907

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la mereō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [proːˈmɛ.re.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [proˈmɛː.re.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''prōmereō''' (present infinitive prōmerēre, perfect active prōmeruī, supine prōmeritum); second conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ The deponent ''prōmereor, prōmerērī, prōmeritus sum'' is used in the same senses, from Plautus on.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|prō-|mereō|t2=to earn, deserve]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The TLL reports Leumann's view that the noun [[m|la|prōmeritum]] came first, from the phrase ⟨prō meritō⟩ “according to merit”, and that the verb was formed from it, while Hofmann and Szantyr explain it otherwise.^(TLL) De Vaan reconstructs [[itc-pro|*mer-ē-|t=to earn]] for [[m|la|mereō]], perhaps from [[ine-pro|*(s)mr-eh₁-|t=to earn]], and compares [[grc|μείρομαι|tr=meíromai|t=to receive one's share]] and [[m|grc|μέρος|tr=méros|t=part, share]]; he finds the verb formation problematic.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and the OLD date it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) who uses both the active and the deponent: ''quid malī sum, ere, tuā ex rē prōmeritus?'', “what harm have I deserved at your hands, master?”^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to earn or deserve, of reward or punishment, often with ''ut'' and a clause,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and with adverbs, ''bene'' or ''male prōmerērī dē aliquō'', to deserve well or ill of someone.^(OLD 2012) Cicero and Ovid use it of the punishment someone has earned.^(Lewis & Short 1879) From Propertius and Statius on it also means to win or gain, and to win over a person or the gods:^(OLD 2012) Suetonius and Pliny the Younger use it of gaining love, goodwill or favour.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ Lactantius uses it of winning people's good opinion,^(Georges 1913) and Church Latin kept the senses of meriting, obtaining and acquiring.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it in the active and the deponent.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of deserving someone's love.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 57/46–12 BC – Propertius uses it in the sense “to gain, win”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 45–96 AD – Statius uses it of winning the favour of the gods.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|merit]], [[m|en|deserve]], earn (a reward or punishment); with ''ut'', to deserve that.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # With ''bene'', ''male'' and ''dē'': to deserve well (or ill) of someone, do someone a good (or bad) turn.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To deserve well of, serve (a person).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To obtain by one's own actions, win, [[m|en|gain]]; to win over (a person, the gods).^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[prōmeritum]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[commereō]]

+ * [[dēmereō]]

+ * [[ēmereō]]

+ * [[mereō]]

+ * [[permereō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}