semi? or not so semi?

[BadButBit]

hi,
so gaudeo, gaudere, gavisus sum is a semi-deponent.
then a verb that has either entry

mereo, -ere, -ui, -itus
or
mereor, -eri, -itus sum

is? I thought I could just go through my latin-dictionary and pick out the entries that had 'sum' in them and say 'this is a semi-deponent verb!' but then realized that if 'mereor, -eri, -itus sum' is semi-deponent I would be trying to compile active indicatives out of a passive principal part mereor, -eri and was a bit stumped.
so this one is either normal 3rd or deponent but not semi-deponent?

BadButBit

 

[scrabulista]

I believe the same phenomenon occurs in English -- "it's the soup that eats like a meal."

 

[BadButBit]

aut cum furcula aut cum cochleare me alo?

 

[cinefactus]

hi,
mereo, -ere, -ui, -itus
or
mereor, -eri, -itus sum

is? I thought I could just go through my latin-dictionary and pick out the entries that had 'sum' in them and say 'this is a semi-deponent verb!' but then realized that if 'mereor, -eri, -itus sum' is semi-deponent I would be trying to compile active indicatives out of a passive principal part mereor, -eri and was a bit stumped.
so this one is either normal 3rd or deponent but not semi-deponent?

BadButBit

The two forms are active & deponent. It isn't semi-deponent.

 

[BadButBit]

gratias ago!
BadButBit