§127. Comparison of Adjectives
Compounds in -dicus (saying) and -volus (willing) take in their comparison the forms of the corresponding participles dīcēns and volēns, which were anciently used as adjectives:—
- maledicus, slanderous; maledīcentior, maledīcentissimus.
- malevolus, spiteful; malevolentior, malevolentissimus.
a. So, by analogy, compounds in -ficus:—
- māgni ficus, grand; māgnificentior, māgnificentissimus.
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.