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
comparative degree of molto; more · anymore, any longer
eş: maggiore, superiore, maggiormente, soprattutto, principalmente, oltre
köken: Inherited from Latin plūs, from Old Latin *plous, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-, *pelh₁u- (“many”). The initial autogemination, though lost in standard pronunciation, is still found in most varieties of regional Italian. The gemination occurs predictably before the palatalization of the original liquid -l-, compare doppio, orecchio, etc.
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.
very, extremely · in particular, particularly · synonym of eritellen (“specifying, allocating”)
eş: epätavallisen, erinomaisen, hirveän, huikean, hyvin, huomattavan
köken: eri + -ttäin (distributive plural). Equivalently, from the second infinitive instructive of erittää (“to specify”) (standard erittäen), and erittäin is very likely one of the prototypes for the -ttain suffix in general. Semantic evolution seems to run from senses 3-to-2-to-1.
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”).