EMERITUS

Emeritus

Emeritus is a Latin past participle that means "having served one's time" or "having merited one's discharge by service" . In current usage, it is a postpositive adjective used to designate a retired professor, bishop, president, prime minister, or other professional; as such it refers to the post-retirement status of at least one pope. The female equivalent, emerita, is also sometimes used, but phrases such as professor emerita are not in proper usage according to Latin grammar rules.

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emeritus

Noun

  1. A person retired in this sense (feminine form emerita).
    Oh, you veteran crime reporter, you grave old usher, you once popular policeman, now in solitary confinement after gracing that school crossing for years, you wretched emeritus read to by a boy!

Adjective

  1. Retired, but retaining an honorific version of previous title .


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