pejor

See also: peior

Latin

Adjective

pejor (neuter pejus, positive malus); third declension

1. alternative typography of peior

Declension

Third-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

• “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

Etymology

Latin pejor, variant spelling of peior. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French peior and pire.

Adjective

pejor

1. comparative degree of mal (worse)

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “pējor”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 8: Patavia–Pix, page 154