köken: Inherited from Middle French pire, from Old French pire, from Latin peior, from Proto-Indo-European *ped-yōs (“to the ground, downward”). Related to pis.
aile: de la pire espèce, de pire en pire, le remède est pire que le mal, pas pire, pour le meilleur comme pour le pire
köken: Uncertain. From Old Swedish sämbre, from Proto-Germanic *sēmizô. Possibly a derivative of *sēmi- (“half”) or Old English sámr (“swarthy, darkish”). Cognate with Old English sæmra. Compare also Norwegian Nynorsk semmer (“insufficient”).
köken: From Proto-Italic *pedjōs, probably from Proto-Indo-European *ped-yōs (“to the ground, downward”), from *ped- (“to walk, fall, stumble”), with change of *-dj- to -[jj]- as in caia (“cudgel”) from *kaidjā-. Compare pessimus (“worst”). Cognate to pēs, pessum.
comparative degree of mao: worse · superlative degree of mao: worst
zıt: mellor
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese peior, from Latin peior, peiōrem, from Proto-Indo-European *ped-yōs (“to the ground, downward”). Cognate with Portuguese pior, Spanish peor.