inferior

inferior is a Latin form of inferus, meaning “below, lower; (inferi) the dead, the underworld; (infimus, imus) lowest”. It is the nominative singular feminine comparative adjective or nominative singular masculine comparative adjective.

Found 89 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.13.1: Insula natura triquetra, cuius unum latus est contra Galliam. Huius lateris alter angulus, qui est ad Cantium, quo fere omnes ex Gallia naves appelluntur, ad orientem solem, inferior ad meridiem spectat. Hoc pertinet circiter millia passuum quingenta.

Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.62: Inferior virtute meas divertor ad artes,

All forms of inferus (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.