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deterius

deterius is a Latin form of deterior, meaning “worse, inferior”. It is the comparative adverb.

Found 55 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.133: … am tantam plagam tacitus accipere potuisses nisi hoc ita statuisses, in re tam manifesta quicquid dixisses te deterius esse facturum?

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.