peior

peior is a Latin form of malus, meaning “bad, evil”. 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 51 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Philippicae 8.29: … ita victo: quorum alterum optabile est, alterum effugere nemo potest. turpis autem fuga mortis omni est morte peior. nam illud quidem non adducor ut credam,

Plautus, Bacchides 1.2.163: Peior magister te istaec docuit, non ego.

All forms of malus (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.