merecedor
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
merecedor (feminine merecedora, masculine plural merecedores, feminine plural merecedoras)
Further reading edit
- “merecedor” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: me‧re‧ce‧dor
Adjective edit
merecedor (feminine merecedora, masculine plural merecedores, feminine plural merecedoras, comparable)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /meɾeθeˈdoɾ/ [me.ɾe.θeˈð̞oɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /meɾeseˈdoɾ/ [me.ɾe.seˈð̞oɾ]
- Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: me‧re‧ce‧dor
Adjective edit
merecedor (feminine merecedora, masculine plural merecedores, feminine plural merecedoras)
- deserving
- 1605, Miguel de Cervantes, El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, Primera parte:
- Los altos cielos que de vuestra divinidad divinamente con las estrellas os fortifican y os hacen merecedora del merecimiento que merece la vuestra grandeza...
- The high heavens, that of your divinity divinely fortify you with the stars, render you deserving of the desert your greatness deserves...
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “merecedor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014