ameritar
Spanish, verb/ameɾiˈtaɾ/
ameritar is spelled A-M-E-R-I-T-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 34 million words in written Spanish, the 208,740th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ameritar is a Spanish verb meaning “to merit, to deserve” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Valer, tener algo cierto grado o valor; merecer la pena, el esfuerzo, la atención, etc. Parecer meritorio”.
What does ameritar mean in English?
verb
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Latin-Americato merit, to deserve
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Valer, tener algo cierto grado o valor; merecer la pena, el esfuerzo, la atención, etc. Parecer meritorio. 2. Dar valor o mérito; justificar.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of ameritar
- amerito first-person present singular
- amerité first-person preterite singular
- ameritado participle past
- ameritando gerund
- ameritada feminine participle past
- ameritados masculine participle past
- ameritadas feminine participle past
- ameritas indicative informal present
- ameritás indicative informal present
- amerita indicative present singular
- ameritamos first-person indicative plural
- ameritáis indicative plural present
- ameritan indicative plural present
- ameritaba first-person imperfect indicative
- ameritabas imperfect indicative second-person
- ameritábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- ameritabais imperfect indicative plural
- ameritaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ameritar?
- /ameɾiˈtaɾ/
- [a.me.ɾiˈt̪aɾ]
- [ameɾiˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ameritar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ameritar in Spanish?
ameritar appears about once in every 34 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).