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peioro
peioro
Latin
Alternative forms
Verb
pēiōrō (present infinitive pēiōrāre, perfect active pēiōrāvī, supine pēiōrātum); first conjugation
- (Late Latin) I make worse; I aggravate
Inflection
Descendants
- Catalan: pitjorar, empitjorar
- Friulian: peiorâ, pejorâ
- Italian: peggiorare
- Portuguese: piorar, pejorar, empiorar
- Spanish: peorar, peyorar
References
- pejoro in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- impair in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- “impair” in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Online.