merecimiento
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /meɾeθiˈmjento/ [me.ɾe.θiˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /meɾesiˈmjento/ [me.ɾe.siˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -ento
- Syllabification: me‧re‧ci‧mien‧to
Noun
merecimiento m (plural merecimientos)
- merit, desert (that which is deserved)
- 1605, Miguel de Cervantes, “Capítulo I”, in 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...
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Further reading
- “merecimiento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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