used to express the comparative and superlative of a following adjective or adverb · most, -est (superlative) · more, most (to a greater / the greatest extent)
eş: davantage, -issime
köken: Inherited from Middle French plus, from Old French plus, from Latin plus.
aile: à plus, à plus tard, au plus, d'autant plus, d'autant plus que, de plus, de plus en plus, en plus, en plus de, ni plus ni moins
used to form the comparative of adjectives and adverbs; more; -er · preceded by the definitive article, used to form the superlative of adjectives and adverbs; most; -est · more (to a greater degree or extent)
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese mais, from Latin magis (“more”). Doublet of mas. Displaced collateral form chus.
aile: mais mais, mais ou menos
O Tejo é mais bello que o rio que corre pela minha aldeia
Então continuaram a estudar enquanto o céu lá fora se tornava gradualmente mais escuro.
[…], quanto maior o diâmetro axonal, mais rapidamente ele conduz impulsos.
benefit (non-monetary privilege afforded to the person holding a job or post) · the area in front of something · front (of something)
çekim: çoğul edut · tamlayan edun
zıt: haitta
köken: From Proto-Finnic *etu. Equivalent to esi- (“front, fore-”) + -u; originally "the area in front of something" (now all but confined to etu-), from which the other senses have developed through figurative use, perhaps already in Proto-Finnic. However, Häkkinen (2004) notes that the abstract senses are only attested since the 18th century.
advantage (any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success) · advantage (score where one player wins a point after deuce)
çekim: çoğul előnyök
zıt: hátrány
köken: elő + -ny. Created by Béla Sárváry during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.
köken: From Old Danish ok, from Old Norse ok (“and, also”), from Proto-Germanic *auk. Cognate with Swedish och (“and”), ock (“also”), Dutch ook (“also”), and German auch (“also”).
Ultimately from Latin plūs. Akin to the native Bulgarian плу́я (plúja, “to unfold, to outspread”) (dialectal), разплу́т (razplút, “diffused, spread out”).