pessimus
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *pessemos, from Proto-Indo-European *ped-tm̥mo-s, from *ped- (“to walk, fall, stumble”) + *-tm̥mos (superlative suffix). See also -issimus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpɛs.sɪ.mʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpɛs.si.mus]
Adjective
[edit]pessimus (superlative, feminine pessima, neuter pessimum, adverb pessimē); first/second declension
- superlative degree of malus; the worst or most evil
- Synonyms: deterrimus, nequissimus
- Antonym: optimus
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | pessimus | pessima | pessimum | pessimī | pessimae | pessima | |
| genitive | pessimī | pessimae | pessimī | pessimōrum | pessimārum | pessimōrum | |
| dative | pessimō | pessimae | pessimō | pessimīs | |||
| accusative | pessimum | pessimam | pessimum | pessimōs | pessimās | pessima | |
| ablative | pessimō | pessimā | pessimō | pessimīs | |||
| vocative | pessime | pessima | pessimum | pessimī | pessimae | pessima | |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “pessimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pessimus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995), New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
Categories:
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ped-
- Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin 3-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin superlative adjectives