deterior

Latin

Etymology

From some obsolete adjective *dēter, from dē.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deːˈte.ri.or/, [d̪eːˈt̪ɛriɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /deˈte.ri.or/, [d̪eˈt̪ɛːrior]

Adjective

dēterior (neuter dēterius, positive *dēter); third declension (superlative: dēterrimus)

1. worse

   Synonym: peior, nequior

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.36:

     Magnam Caesarem iniuriam facere, qui suo adventu vectigalia sibi deteriora faceret.

     Caesar perpetrated a great injustice against him, as by his coming Caesar had lowered his revenues.

Declension

Third-declension comparative adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	dēterior	dēterius		dēteriōrēs	dēteriōra
genitive	dēteriōris			dēteriōrum
dative	dēteriōrī			dēteriōribus
accusative	dēteriōrem	dēterius		dēteriōrēs dēteriōrīs	dēteriōra
ablative	dēteriōre dēteriōrī			dēteriōribus
vocative	dēterior	dēterius		dēteriōrēs	dēteriōra

Derived terms

• dēteriorō

References

• “deterior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “deterior”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• deterior 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
    
• “deteriorate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.