comparativus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From comparō (“to compare”) + -īvus.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kom.pa.raːˈtiː.u̯us/, [kɔmpäräːˈt̪iːu̯ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kom.pa.raˈti.vus/, [kompäräˈt̪iːvus]
Adjective edit
comparātīvus (feminine comparātīva, neuter comparātīvum); first/second-declension adjective
- comparative
- (grammar) comparative (of an adjective)
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | comparātīvus | comparātīva | comparātīvum | comparātīvī | comparātīvae | comparātīva | |
| Genitive | comparātīvī | comparātīvae | comparātīvī | comparātīvōrum | comparātīvārum | comparātīvōrum | |
| Dative | comparātīvō | comparātīvō | comparātīvīs | ||||
| Accusative | comparātīvum | comparātīvam | comparātīvum | comparātīvōs | comparātīvās | comparātīva | |
| Ablative | comparātīvō | comparātīvā | comparātīvō | comparātīvīs | |||
| Vocative | comparātīve | comparātīva | comparātīvum | comparātīvī | comparātīvae | comparātīva | |
Descendants edit
- Catalan: comparatiu
- Galician: comparativo
- Italian: comparativo
- Old French: comparatif
- Middle French: comparatif
- → English: comparative
- French: comparatif
- Middle French: comparatif
- Norwegian Bokmål: komparativ
- Portuguese: comparativo
- Spanish: comparativo
References edit
- “comparativus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “comparativus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- comparativus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.