FromProto-Italic*pessemos, fromProto-Indo-European*ped-tm̥mo-s, from*ped-(“to walk, fall, stumble”) +*-tm̥mos(superlative suffix). Related topeior. See also-issimus.
pessimus (superlative,femininepessima,neuterpessimum);first/second declension
- superlative degree ofmalus; theworst or mostevil
- Synonym:deterrimus,nequissimus
First/second-declension adjective.
- “pessimus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pessimus”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995),New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press,→ISBN