melior

== Interlingua == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /meˈljor/ === Adjective === melior comparative degree of bon: better == Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *meljōs, from Proto-Indo-European *mélyōs, from *mel- (“strong, big”). Cognate with multus, Ancient Greek μάλα (mála), Latvian milns (“very much, a lot of”). Displaced bonior as the comparative of bonus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈmɛ.li.ɔr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmɛː.li.or] === Adjective === melior (comparative, neuter melius); third declension comparative degree of bonus; better ==== Declension ==== Third-declension comparative adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== meliōrō melius ==== Descendants ==== ==== See also ==== bonus optimus === References === === Further reading === “melior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “melior”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “melior”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.