名詞 emeritus:

1. a professor or minister who is retired from assigned duties

形容詞 emeritus:

1. honorably retired from assigned duties and retaining your title along with the additional title `emeritus' as in `professor emeritus'; `retired from assigned duties' need not imply that one is inactive
   同義詞：retired

1. Perhaps I can introduce Mr. Lake Kirby, an emeritus professor from Washington University.
   請允許我介紹華盛頓大學名譽教授萊克柯爾比先生。

e.mer.i.tus

adj.Abbr. emer.（形容詞）縮寫 emer.
Retired but retaining an honorary title corresponding to that held immediately before retirement:
榮譽退休的：退休但仍榮譽保持有退休前所擁有的職位：
例句：
a professor emeritus.
一個榮譽退休教授

n.（名詞）
【復數(shù)】 e.mer.i.ti[-to.]
One who is retired but retains an honorary title corresponding to that held immediately before retirement.
榮譽退休者：退休但仍榮譽保持有退休前所擁有的職位的人

來源：
Latin ômeritus [past participle of] ômerôro [to earn by service]
拉丁語 ômeritus [] ômerôro的過去分詞 [用服務來掙得]
ô-, ex- [from] * see ex-
ô-, ex- [從] *參見 ex-
merôro [to deserve, earn] * see (s)mer- 2
merôro [應得，掙得] *參見 (s)mer- 2