melior
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Interlingua
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]melior
- (comparative degree of bon) better
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *meljōs, from Proto-Indo-European *mélyōs, from *mel- (“strong, big”). Cognate with multus, Ancient Greek μάλα (mála), Latvian milns (“very much, a lot of”). Displaced bonior as the comparative of bonus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈme.li.or/, [ˈmɛlʲiɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈme.li.or/, [ˈmɛːlior]
Adjective
[edit]melior (neuter melius); third declension
Declension
[edit]Third-declension comparative adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | melior | melius | meliōrēs | meliōra | |
Genitive | meliōris | meliōrum | |||
Dative | meliōrī | meliōribus | |||
Accusative | meliōrem | melius | meliōrēs | meliōra | |
Ablative | meliōre | meliōribus | |||
Vocative | melior | melius | meliōrēs | meliōra |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: migliore
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “melior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “melior”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- melior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to find one's circumstances altered for the better (the worse): meliore (deteriore) condicione esse, uti
- my position is considerably improved; my prospects are brighter: res meae meliore loco, in meliore causa sunt
- my position is considerably improved; my prospects are brighter: meliorem in statum redigor
- to hope well of a person: bene, optime (meliora) sperare de aliquo (Nep. Milt. 1. 1)
- to induce some one to take a brighter view of things: in meliorem spem, cogitationem aliquem inducere (Off. 2. 15. 53)
- heaven forfend: di prohibeant, di meliora!
- (ambiguous) he feels better: melius ei factum est
- (ambiguous) to deserve well at some one's hands; to do a service to..: bene, praeclare (melius, optime) mereri de aliquo
- to find one's circumstances altered for the better (the worse): meliore (deteriore) condicione esse, uti
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 370
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