emeritus

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ɪˈmɛɹɪtəs/|/ɪˈmɛɹɪtaɪ/    美 /ɪˈmɛɹɪtəs/|/ɪˈmɛɹɪtaɪ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A (male) person who is retired from active service or an occupation, especially one who retains an honorific version of a previous title.
    — Martin Engels said: “I am not posted on dyke-bridges, but if it is a Dutch scheme there may be something in it. That engineer made a mistake by calling the city officials emerituses. He should not call people names if he wants the Municipal Council to build his twenty-four-million-dollar bridge. If the Tammany organization wants to build a dyke-bridge, I’m for it.”
  2. An honorific version of a previous title. rare
    — With a string of “emerituses” behind his name, last of which was acquired with the Welfare society resignation, [George Q.] Sheppard now lives in retirement in his home at The Hill, 722 King street.
形容词 adj.
  1. Retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title. not-comparable,often,postpositional
    — emeritus professor    professor emeritus    professors emeritae

词形变化

emerita feminine,singular emeriti masculine,plural emerituses masculine,plural,rare emeritae feminine,plural emeriti plural emerituses plural

词汇关系

相关词
emerita emeritum emeritate

词源

词源 1
The adjective is a learned borrowing from Latin ēmeritus (“(having been) earned, (having been) merited; (having been) served, having done one’s service”), the perfect passive participle of ēmereō (“to earn, merit; to gain by service; (military) to complete one’s obligation to serve, to serve out one’s time”), from ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’) + mereō (“to deserve, merit; to acquire, earn, get, obtain; to render service to; to serve”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (“to allot; to assign”)).
The noun is derived from the adjective. The plural form emeriti is borrowed from Latin ēmeritī.
词源 2
The adjective is a learned borrowing from Latin ēmeritus (“(having been) earned, (having been) merited; (having been) served, having done one’s service”), the perfect passive participle of ēmereō (“to earn, merit; to gain by service; (military) to complete one’s obligation to serve, to serve out one’s time”), from ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’) + mereō (“to deserve, merit; to acquire, earn, get, obtain; to render service to; to serve”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (“to allot; to assign”)).
The noun is derived from the adjective. The plural form emeriti is borrowed from Latin ēmeritī.
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