peor

• pior

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.

• IPA^(key): [peˈoɾ], [ˈpjoɾ]

peor m or f (plural peores)

1. comparative degree of mao: worse

   Antonym: mellor

2. superlative degree of mao: worst

   Antonym: mellor

peor

1. comparative degree of mal, worse

   Antonym: mellor

• ir de mal en peor
• peoría

• “peyor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “peor” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “peor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “peor” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “peor” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Latin pavor, pavōrem.

peor oblique singular, f (oblique plural peors, nominative singular peor, nominative plural peors)

1. fear

• French: peur
• Walloon: peu

peor m or f (plural peores)

1. Obsolete spelling of pior

peor

1. Obsolete spelling of pior

From Latin peiōrem, from Proto-Indo-European *ped-yōs (“to the ground, downward”).

• IPA^(key): /peˈoɾ/ [peˈoɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: pe‧or

peor m or f (masculine and feminine plural peores)

1. comparative degree of malo: worse
2. superlative degree of malo: worst

• mejor

peor

1. comparative degree of mal, worse

• “peor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• pero