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comparatif

/kɔ̃.pa.ʁa.tif/

adjective/kɔ̃.pa.ʁa.tif/

comparative

C'est comparatif à un autre.It is comparative to another [one].

Related: avantage comparatif

Inherited from Old French comparatif, borrowed from Latin comparātīvus, from comparō (“to compare”) + -īvus.

noun, masculine/kɔ̃.pa.ʁa.tif/plural: comparatifs

comparative (a grammatical structure used to compare or contrast); comparative (a word, particularly an adjective or adverb, in comparative form)

un comparatif de supériorité, le comparatif d'infériorité, et celui d'égalité

Inherited from Old French comparatif, borrowed from Latin comparātīvus, from comparō (“to compare”) + -īvus.