Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, chapter 129

Home Collections/Texts Perseus Catalog Research Grants Open Source About Help

Hide browse bar Your current position in the text is marked in blue. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position:

This text is part of:

Greek and Roman Materials

View text chunked by:

Table of Contents:

view as XML

[*] 129. Several adjectives have in their comparison irregular forms:—

[*] Note.--These irregularities arise from the use of different stems (cf. § 127). Thus frūgālior and frūgālissimus are formed from the stem frūgāli-, but are used as the comparative and superlative of the indeclinable frūgī .

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.

Ginn and Company, 1903.

The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.

Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com

view as XML