comparativus
Latin
Etymology
From comparō (“to compare”) + -īvus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔm.pa.raːˈtiː.wʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kom.pa.raˈt̪iː.vus]
Adjective
comparātīvus (feminine comparātīva, neuter comparātīvum); first/second-declension adjective
- comparative
- (grammar) comparative (of an adjective)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | comparātīvus | comparātīva | comparātīvum | comparātīvī | comparātīvae | comparātīva | |
| genitive | comparātīvī | comparātīvae | comparātīvī | comparātīvōrum | comparātīvārum | comparātīvōrum | |
| dative | comparātīvō | comparātīvae | comparātīvō | comparātīvīs | |||
| accusative | comparātīvum | comparātīvam | comparātīvum | comparātīvōs | comparātīvās | comparātīva | |
| ablative | comparātīvō | comparātīvā | comparātīvō | comparātīvīs | |||
| vocative | comparātīve | comparātīva | comparātīvum | comparātīvī | comparātīvae | comparātīva | |
Descendants
- Catalan: comparatiu
- Galician: comparativo
- Italian: comparativo
- Old French: comparatif
- French: comparatif
- → Romanian: comparativ
- → Middle English: comparatif, comparatijf, comparatyf, comparatyfe
- English: comparative
- French: comparatif
- Norwegian Bokmål: komparativ
- Portuguese: comparativo
- Spanish: comparativo
References
- “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.