comparativus

== Latin == === Etymology === From comparō (“to compare”) + īvus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔm.pa.raːˈtiː.wʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kom.pa.raˈtiː.vus] === Adjective === comparātīvus (feminine comparātīva, neuter comparātīvum); first/second-declension adjective comparative (grammar) comparative (of an adjective) ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Descendants ==== Catalan: comparatiu Galician: comparativo Italian: comparativo Old French: comparatifFrench: comparatif→ Romanian: comparativ→ Middle English: comparatif, comparatijf, comparatyf, comparatyfeEnglish: comparative 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.