pejor
See also: peior
Latin
editAdjective
editpejor (neuter pejus, positive malus); third declension
- alternative typography of peior
Declension
editThird-declension comparative adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | pejor | pejus | pejōrēs | pejōra | |
Genitive | pejōris | pejōrum | |||
Dative | pejōrī | pejōribus | |||
Accusative | pejōrem | pejus | pejōrēs | pejōra | |
Ablative | pejōre | pejōribus | |||
Vocative | pejor | pejus | pejōrēs | pejōra |
References
edit- “pejor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pejor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Old Occitan
editEtymology
editLatin pejor, variant spelling of peior. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French peior and pire.
Adjective
editpejor
- comparative degree of mal (worse)
References
edit- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “pējor”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 8: Patavia–Pix, page 154