peioro
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Verb
peiōrō (present infinitive peiōrāre, perfect active peiōrāvī, supine peiōrātum); first conjugation
- (Late Latin) make worse; aggravate
Conjugation
Conjugation of peiōrō (first conjugation)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: peggiorare
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: peiorâ, pejorâ
- Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: pitjorar
- Franco-Provençal: periér
- Occitan: pejorar
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings:
- ⇒ English: pejorate
References
- “pejoro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “impair”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “impair”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.