"merto" meaning in Italian

{
  "etymology_text": "Syncopated form of merito.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "merti",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "merto m (plural merti)",
      "name": "it-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "mèr‧to"
  ],
  "lang": "Italian",
  "lang_code": "it",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "merito"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Italian entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of merito"
      ],
      "id": "en-merto-it-noun-~hBmSmp2",
      "links": [
        [
          "merito",
          "merito#Italian"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(poetic) Alternative form of merito"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "masculine",
        "poetic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Italian entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "39 61",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "22 78",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "«Tell me, my Master, tell me, thou my Lord», ¶ […] ¶ «Came any one by his own merit hence, ¶ or by another's, who was blessed thereafter?»",
          "ref": "1321, Dante Alighieri with Umberto Bosco and Giovanni Reggio, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition, Firenze: Le Monnier, published 1994, →ISBN, Canto IV, page 56, lines 46, 49-50:",
          "text": "«Dimmi, maestro mio, dimmi, segnore», ¶ […] ¶ «uscicci mai alcuno, o per suo merto ¶ o per altrui, che poi fosse beato?»",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of merito",
        "merit"
      ],
      "id": "en-merto-it-noun-mvjEM7WN",
      "links": [
        [
          "merito",
          "merito#Italian"
        ],
        [
          "merit",
          "merit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(poetic) Alternative form of merito",
        "merit"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "poetic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɛr.to/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛrto"
    }
  ],
  "word": "merto"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Italian 2-syllable words",
    "Italian countable nouns",
    "Italian entries with incorrect language header",
    "Italian lemmas",
    "Italian masculine nouns",
    "Italian nouns",
    "Italian terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:Italian/ɛrto",
    "Rhymes:Italian/ɛrto/2 syllables"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Syncopated form of merito.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "merti",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "merto m (plural merti)",
      "name": "it-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "mèr‧to"
  ],
  "lang": "Italian",
  "lang_code": "it",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "merito"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "Italian poetic terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of merito"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "merito",
          "merito#Italian"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(poetic) Alternative form of merito"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "masculine",
        "poetic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Italian poetic terms",
        "Italian terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "«Tell me, my Master, tell me, thou my Lord», ¶ […] ¶ «Came any one by his own merit hence, ¶ or by another's, who was blessed thereafter?»",
          "ref": "1321, Dante Alighieri with Umberto Bosco and Giovanni Reggio, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition, Firenze: Le Monnier, published 1994, →ISBN, Canto IV, page 56, lines 46, 49-50:",
          "text": "«Dimmi, maestro mio, dimmi, segnore», ¶ […] ¶ «uscicci mai alcuno, o per suo merto ¶ o per altrui, che poi fosse beato?»",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of merito",
        "merit"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "merito",
          "merito#Italian"
        ],
        [
          "merit",
          "merit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(poetic) Alternative form of merito",
        "merit"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "poetic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɛr.to/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛrto"
    }
  ],
  "word": "merto"
}