comparativus
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kom.pa.raːˈtiː.wus/, [kɔm.pa.raːˈtiː.wʊs]
Adjective
comparātīvus (feminine comparātīva, neuter comparātīvum); first/second declension
- comparative
- (grammar) comparative (of an adjective)
Declension
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | 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 | comparātīvīs | comparātīvīs | |
| Accusative | comparātīvum | comparātīvam | comparātīvum | comparātīvōs | comparātīvās | comparātīva | |
| Ablative | comparātīvō | comparātīvā | comparātīvō | comparātīvīs | comparātīvīs | comparātīvīs | |
| Vocative | comparātīve | comparātīva | comparātīvum | comparātīvī | comparātīvae | comparātīva | |
Descendants
- Catalan: comparatiu
- Galician: comparativo
- Italian: comparativo
- Old French: comparatif
- Middle French: comparatif
- → English: comparative
- French: comparatif
- Middle French: comparatif
- 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
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