English
meracious
Meracious comes from Latin meracus ‘undiluted, neat (drink)’, and goes back to merus ‘pure, inmixed’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmerus‘pure, inmixed’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmeracus‘undiluted, neat (drink)’
- Englishearliest quotation 1657meracious
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmerus‘pure, inmixed’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmeracus‘undiluted, neat (drink)’
- Englishearliest quotation 1657meracious
Earliest quotation: 1657, Thomas Reeve: “we must drink of the sweet, and it is…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *mer- ‘to sparkle, glimmer, gleam’
march, remember, murder, marine, nightmare, mortality, marsh, mortal, maritime, mortar, mare, moor, morbid, mara, muller, mort, morn, ambrosia, marinate, moribund, maar, marinara, cormorant, 61 more
through Latin merus ‘pure, inmixed’
Today it means
adj Without mixture or adulteration; strong; racy.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin merus / meracious