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§125. Comparison of Adjectives

Adjectives in -er form the Superlative by adding -rimus to the nominative. The comparative is regular:—

  • ācer, keen; ācrior, ācerrimus.
  • miser, wretched; miserior, miserrimus.

a. So vetus (gen. veteris) has superlative veterrimus, from the old form veter; and mātūrus, besides its regular superlative ( mātūrissimus), has a rare form mātūrrimus.

For the comparative of vetus, vetustior (from vetustus) is used.

J. H. Allen and J. B. Greenough, New Latin Grammar (Boston: Ginn, 1903). Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.