pejor

See also: peior

Latin

Adjective

pejor (neuter pejus, positive malus); third declension

1. alternative typography of peior

Declension

Third-declension comparative adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	pejor	pejus		pejōrēs	pejōra
Genitive	pejōris			pejōrum
Dative	pejōrī			pejōribus
Accusative	pejōrem	pejus		pejōrēs	pejōra
Ablative	pejōre			pejōribus
Vocative	pejor	pejus		pejōrēs	pejōra

References

• “pejor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pejor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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Old Occitan

Etymology

Latin pejor, variant spelling of peior. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French peior and pire.

Adjective

pejor

1. comparative degree of mal (worse)

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “pējor”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume
  , page 154