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§129. Irregular Comparison

Several adjectives have in their comparison irregular forms:—

bonus, good;melior, better;optimus, best.
malus, bad;pêior, worse;pessimus, worst.
māgnus, great;mâior, greater;maximus, greatest.
parvus, small;minor, less;minimus, least.
multus, much;plūs (N.) (§ 120), more;plūrimus, most.
multī, many;plūrēs, more;plūrimī, most.
nēquam (indecl., § 122. b), worthless;nēquior;nēquissimus.
frūgī (indecl., § 122. b), useful, worthy;frūgālior;frūgālissimus.
dexter, on the right, handy;dexterior;dextimus.

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.