different between merit vs due

English

Etymology

The noun is derived from Middle English merit, merite (“quality of person’s character or conduct deserving of reward or punishment; such reward or punishment; excellence, worthiness; benefit; right to be rewarded for spiritual service; retribution at doomsday; virtue through which Jesus Christ brings about salvation; virtue possessed by a holy person; power of a pagan deity”), from Anglo-Norman merit, merite, Old French merite (“moral worth, reward; merit”) (modern French mérite), from Latin meritum (“that which one deserves, deserts; benefit, reward, merit; service; kindness; importance, value, worth; blame, demerit, fault; grounds, reason”), neuter of meritus (“deserved, earned, obtained; due, proper, right; deserving, meritorious”), perfect passive participle of mere? (“to deserve, earn, obtain, merit; to earn a living”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (“to allot, assign”). The English word is probably cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (méros, “component, part; portion, share; destiny, fate, lot”) and cognate with Old Occitan merit.

The verb is derived from Middle French meriter, Old French meriter (“to deserve, merit”) (modern French mériter), from merite: see further above. The word is cognate with Italian meritare (“to deserve, merit; to be worth; to earn”), Latin merit?re (“to earn regularly; to serve as a soldier”), Spanish meritar (“to deserve, merit; to earn”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: m?r??t, IPA^(key): /?m???t/, /?m???t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m???t/, /?m???t/
• Rhymes: -???t
• Hyphenation: me?rit

Noun

merit (countable and uncountable, plural merits)

1. (countable) A claim to commendation or a reward.
2. (countable) A mark or token of approbation or to recognize excellence.

   Antonym: demerit
3. (countable, uncountable) Something deserving or worthy of positive recognition or reward.

   Synonyms: excellence, value, worth

   Antonym: demerit
4. (uncountable, Buddhism, Jainism) The sum of all the good deeds that a person does which determines the quality of the person's next state of existence and contributes to the person's growth towards enlightenment.
5. (uncountable, law) Usually in the plural form the merits: the substantive rightness or wrongness of a legal argument, a lawsuit, etc., as opposed to technical matters such as the admissibility of evidence or points of legal procedure; (by extension) the overall good or bad quality, or rightness or wrongness, of some other thing.
6. (countable, obsolete) The quality or state of deserving retribution, whether reward or punishment.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

merit (third-person singular simple present merits, present participle meriting, simple past and past participle merited)

1. (transitive) To deserve, to earn.
2. (intransitive) To be deserving or worthy.
3. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To reward.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• merit (Buddhism) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• merit (Catholicism) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• merit (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• merit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• merit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• merit at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Terim, ermit, miter, mitre, remit, timer

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin meritum.

Pronunciation

Noun

merit m (plural meric)

1. merit

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?merit]

Etymology 1

From French mérite.

Noun

merit n (plural merite)

1. merit

Declension

Etymology 2

Verb

merit

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of merita

English

Etymology

From Middle English dewe, dew, due, from Old French deü (“due”), past participle of devoir (“to owe”), from Latin d?b?re, present active infinitive of d?be? (“I owe”), from d?- (“from”) +? habe? (“I have”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: dyo?o, jo?o, IPA^(key): /dju?/, /d?u?/
  • Homophone: dew
• (US) enPR: do?o, IPA^(key): /du/
  • Homophones: dew, do, doo
• (General Australian, General New Zealand) enPR: jo?o, IPA^(key): /d???/
  • Homophones: dew, Jew
• Rhymes: -u?

Adjective

due (comparative more due, superlative most due)

1. Owed or owing.

   Synonyms: needed, owing, to be made, required

2. Appropriate.
   • 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

     With dirges due, in sad array, / Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne.

3. Scheduled; expected.

   Synonyms: expected, forecast

4. Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time.

   Synonym: expected

5. Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
   • 1852, John David Forbes, "Dissertation on the Progress of Mathematical and Physical Science" in Encyclopædia Britannica

     the milky aspect be due to a confusion of small stars
6. On a direct bearing, especially for the four points of the compass

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

due (comparative more due, superlative most due)

1. (used with compass directions) Directly; exactly.

   The river runs due north for about a mile.

Translations

Noun

due (plural dues)

1. Deserved acknowledgment.

   Give him his due — he is a good actor.
2. (in plural dues) A membership fee.
3. That which is owed; debt; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done, duty.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Lotos-Eaters

     Yearly little dues of wheat, and wine, and oil.

4. Right; just title or claim.

Hyponyms

• light due

Derived terms

• give someone his due
• give the devil his due

Translations

Further reading

• due in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• due in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• due at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Deu., edu

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse dúfa, from Proto-Germanic *d?b?, cognate with Norwegian due, Swedish duva, Dutch duif, German Taube, English dove.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du??/, [?d?u?u]
• Synonym: duge

Noun

due c (singular definite duen, plural indefinite duer)

1. pigeon, dove

Inflection

Derived terms

Esperanto

Etymology

From du +? -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?due/
• Rhymes: -ue

Adverb

due

1. secondly

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dy/

Participle

due

1. feminine singular of the past participle of devoir

Ido

Etymology

From du (“two”) +? -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?du?e/

Adverb

due

1. both

   Synonym: ambe (neologism)

Italian

Alternative forms

• dui (archaic, literary)
• duo m or f (archaic, literary)

Etymology

From Latin duae, feminine plural of duo, from Proto-Italic *du?, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?du.e/
• Hyphenation: dù?e

Numeral

due

1. two

Noun

due m (invariable)

1. two

Derived terms

See also

• Appendix:Italian numbers

Middle English

Adjective

due

1. Alternative form of dewe (“due”)

Noun

due

1. Alternative form of dewe (“due”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse dúfa, from Proto-Germanic *d?b?. Compare Danish due, Swedish duva, Icelandic dúfa, Dutch duif, German Taube, English dove.

Noun

due f or m (definite singular dua or duen, indefinite plural duer, definite plural duene)

1. dove, pigeon, culver (bird)

   Hyponym: duestegg

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin duae, feminine plural of duo (“two”), from Proto-Italic *du? (“two”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh? (“two”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?du??/
• Rhymes: -u??
• Hyphenation: du?e

Adverb

due

1. Only used in a due (“indicating two musicians or sections play together”)

References

• “due” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse dúfa, from Proto-Germanic *d?b?. Compare Danish due, Swedish duva, Icelandic dúfa, Dutch duif, German Taube, English dove.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²d???/

Noun

due f (definite singular dua, indefinite plural duer, definite plural duene)

1. A bird of the family Columbidae, the pigeons and doves.

Derived terms

References

• “due” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

Common contraction of du (“you (sing.)”) and e, colloquial pronunciation spelling of är (“are”).

Pronunciation

Contraction

due

1. (nonstandard, text messaging, Internet slang) ur, you're, you are