antiquior

antiquior is a Latin form of antiquus, meaning “ancient, old”. It is the nominative singular masculine comparative adjective or vocative singular masculine comparative adjective or nominative singular feminine comparative adjective or vocative singular feminine comparative adjective.

Found 26 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Republica 1fr.2: Sic, quoniam plura beneficia continet patria et est antiquior parens quam is, qui creavit, maior ei profecto quam parenti debetur gratia.

Cicero, Brutus 68: … m sanguinem! Gratum est tamen quod volunt.—Cur igitur Lysias et Hyperides amatur, cum penitus ignoretur Cato? Antiquior est huius sermo et quaedam horridiora verba. Ita enim tum loquebantur. Id muta, quod tum ille non potuit, et …

All forms of antiquus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.