emerita

From the Latin ēmerita, the feminine singular form of ēmeritus.

emerita (plural emeritae)

1. feminine singular of emeritus (“(often postpositive) retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title”)

emerita (plural emeritae, masculine singular emeritus)

1. A female person who is retired from active service or an occupation, especially one who retains an honorific version of a previous title.
   • 1988, Nadya Aisenberg, Mona Harrington, Women of Academe: Outsiders in the Sacred Grove, University of Massachusetts Press, →ISBN, page 187:

     And the older women faculty, the emeritae lived around the college and you talked to them and you heard it ... you know, they were just devoted to that place body and soul, and they didn’t care if they made two bent nickels a year, […]

   • 1991, American Holistic Nurses' Association, Beginnings, page 3:

     With the help of ever-present chief elder Charlotte McGuire and our headquarters, an updated list of all Board members was developed. Twenty-eight persons who are now emeritae were named.

   • 2007, Daniel Aaron, The Americanist, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 69:

     In 1939, when I arrived, women made up a slight majority of the Smith faculty. The oldest of the emeritae were such relics as Elizabeth Hanscomb, who had taught one of the first American literature courses in the country some time in the 1890s.

   • 2008, Linda Nochlin, A Life of Learning, pages 15–16:

     Although by no means a card-carrying feminist—and who was in those days, besides some shapeless, tweedy, old left-over suffragettes among the emeritae?—I knew from that time onward that I was not going to be one of those model domestic women.

From the Latin ēmerita, a substantive use of the neuter plural form of ēmeritus.

emerita

1. plural of emeritum

• emirate, meatier

Learned borrowing from Latin ēmerita.

• IPA^(key): /ˈemeritɑ/, [ˈe̞me̞ˌrit̪ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -itɑ
• Syllabification^(key): e‧me‧ri‧ta

emerita

1. emerita

• “emerita”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

emerita f sg

1. feminine singular of emerito

• ametrie, eremita, eritema, materie, mieterà, remiate, temerai

ēmerita

1. inflection of ēmeritus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/nominative neuter plural

ēmeritā

1. ablative feminine singular of ēmeritus