pessimus
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Italic *pessemos, from Proto-Indo-European *ped-tm̥mó-s, from *ped- (“to walk, fall, stumble”) + *-tm̥mó-s (superlative suffix). Related to peior. See also -issimus.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpes.si.mus/, [ˈpɛs̠ːɪmʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpes.si.mus/, [ˈpɛsːimus]
Adjective[edit]
pessimus (feminine pessima, neuter pessimum); first/second declension
- superlative degree of malus; the worst or most evil
- Synonym: deterrimus, nequissimus
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | pessimus | pessima | pessimum | pessimī | pessimae | pessima | |
| Genitive | pessimī | pessimae | pessimī | pessimōrum | pessimārum | pessimōrum | |
| Dative | pessimō | pessimō | pessimīs | ||||
| Accusative | pessimum | pessimam | pessimum | pessimōs | pessimās | pessima | |
| Ablative | pessimō | pessimā | pessimō | pessimīs | |||
| Vocative | pessime | pessima | pessimum | pessimī | pessimae | pessima | |
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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