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Latin GrammarComparisonof Adjectives
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Comparison of Adjectives In English, adjectives have three degrees:
1. Positive degree—old2. Comparative degree—older3. Superlative degree—oldest
Compare: new, newer, newest ugly, uglier, ugliest good, better best beautiful, more beautiful, most beautiful
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Positive, Comparative, and Superlative Degrees Latin, too, has these degrees
1. longus2. longior3. longissimus
Compare: altus, altior, altissimus stultus, stultior, stultissimus bonus, melior, optimus
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Comparative Degree longus, -a, -um = long To make its comparative, put –ior on its stem:
longior Other examples:
stultus ➔ stultior facilis ➔ facilior
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Comparative Degree The form in –ior is actually masculine and
feminine. The neuter ends in –ius. So the full name of the comparative form is
longior, longius (or longior, -ius)
Compare:stultior, stultius (stultior, -ius)
facilior, facilius (facilior, -ius)
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Declining Third Declension Adjectives.
singular plural
omnis omnis omne omnēs omnēs omnia
omnem omnem omne omnīs omnīs omnia
omnis omnis omnis omnium omnium omnium
omnī omnī omnī omnibus omnibus omnibus
omnī omnī omnī omnibus omnibus omnibus
You may remember that most third-declension adjectives are i-stems and have i-stem endings.
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Declining Comparative Adjectives Comparatives are third-declension, but
they aren’t i-stems, so they use consonant stem endings.
singular plural
longior longior longius longiōrēs longiōrēs longiōra
longiōrem longiōrem longiōre longiōrēs longiōrēs longiōra
longiōris longiōris longiōris longiōrum longiōrum longiōrum
longiōrī longiōrī longiōrī longiōribus longiōribus longiōribus
longiōre longiōre longiōre longiōribus longiōribus longiōribus
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SuperlativesTo make a superlative, add –issimus to the adjective stem.
Examples:longus ➔ longissimus
stultus ➔ stultissimus
audāx ➔ audācissimus
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SuperlativesAll adjectives whose first form ends in –er, oddly, add –rimus.
Examples:pulcher ➔ pulcherrimus
miser ➔ miserrimus
celer ➔ celerrimus
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SuperlativesAll a few adjectives that end in –ilis, like facilis and similis make their superlatives like so:
Examples:facilis ➔ facillimus
similis ➔ simillimus
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Good News Superlatives are easy to decline. They all decline just like multus, -a, -um
singular plural
longissimus longissima longissimum longissimī longissimae longissima
longissimum longissimam longissimum longissimōs longissimās longissima
longissimī longissimae longissimī longissimōrum longissimārum longissimōrum
longissimō longissimae longissimō longissimīs longissimīs longissimīs
longissimō longissimā longissimō longissimīs longissimīs longissimīs
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Irregular Comparatives and Superlatives Just as English has good, better, best and
bad, worse, worst, Latin has some irregular adjectives.
bonus, melior, optimus
malus, peior, pessimus
multus, plus, plūrimus
magnus, maior, maximus
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