emeritus
adjective /ɪˈmerɪtəs/
/ɪˈmerɪtəs/
(often Emeritus)
- used before or after a title to show that a person, usually a university teacher, keeps the title as an honour, although he or she has stopped working
(常指大学教师)退休后保留头衔的,荣誉退休的 - the Emeritus Professor of Biology
荣誉退休的生物学教授 - the National Gallery's director emeritus
荣誉退休的国家美术馆馆长
词源mid 18th cent.: from Latin, past participle of emereri ‘earn one's discharge by service’, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out of, from’ + mereri ‘earn’. - the Emeritus Professor of Biology