comparativos
Dictionary entries
- Entry →comparativus, comparativa, comparativum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Literature
based on/involving consideration of relative merits; comparative;
acc. pl. (m.)
Examples
- A
Liber V
Aulus Gellius
"...pluria" dici convenit, ne contra formam perpetuam in comparativo "i" littera sit ante extremum "a"." Tum ille amicus..." - M
Liber III
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...quantum sit, ad aliquid. Hoc ultimum maxime in comparativo genere versari putat, quoniam melius ac peius, maius..."