merum

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.rum/, [ˈmɛrʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.rum/, [ˈmɛːrum]

Etymology 1

From neuter substantive of merus (“pure”).

Noun

merum n (genitive merī); second declension

1. pure wine, wine unmixed with water, neat wine
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.655–656:

     Prōtinus errātīs laetī vēscuntur in agrīs
     et celebrant largō sēque diemque merō.

     Continuously, the joyful [people] feast in the fields through which they wander,
     and celebrate themselves and the day with abundant pure wine.
     (The ancient Romans celebrated the festival of river goddess Anna Perenna on the Ides of March.)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	merum	mera
Genitive	merī	merōrum
Dative	merō	merīs
Accusative	merum	mera
Ablative	merō	merīs
Vocative	merum	mera

Synonyms

• (pure wine): Bacchī hūmor, Bacchus, vīnum

Derived terms

• merulentus

Etymology 2

Adjective

merum

1. inflection of merus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

References

• “merum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “merum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• merum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• merum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “merum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Old English

Noun

merum

1. dative plural of mer