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pessimo

pessimo is a Latin form of malus, meaning “bad, evil”. It is the ablative singular masculine superlative adjective.

Found 34 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.116: … cogebantur dare, qui minimum, singulos nummos. minimum ut sequamur, quoniam xc med. duximus, accedant eo novo pessimoque exemplo HS xc.

Plautus, Mostellaria 3.2.738b: Péssimo.

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.