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
Liber V
Aulus Gellius
"...pluria" dici convenit, ne contra formam perpetuam in comparativo "i" littera sit ante extremum "a"." Tum ille amicus..."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..."
