que, ex quibus nascuntur, bisillaba sint uel eo plus4
P. 45a
per genetiuos1 et uel unam uel duas assumentia2 syllabas faciunt3 supra dictos gradus4…. Superlatiuus comparatiuum est5 quando superat una syllaba…. Est quando par est6, ut in ‘‑limus’ terminans…est quando una uincitur7 syllaba, ut quando in ‘‑fimus’…desinit…
De Dimminutiuo …comparatiua quoque non solum augent8, sed etiam est quando minuunt uim primitiuorum, sed non absolute9. Ad aliquid enim omnimodo10 fit comparatio… …non posunt tamen esse absoluta11, cum a comparatiuis sint deriuata…ut ‘maiusculus12,’ ‘minusculus13’…
- Thais quam ego sum14 maiuscula est,
id est, ‘paruo maior15 quam ego.’ Alia autem diminutiua…ex sese16 habent diminutionem…
P. 45b
Solent autem dimminutiua uel necessariae significationis causa proferri1, ut Sallustius in Eugurthino: ‘postquam reguli2 in unum conuenere, id est ‘parui reges,’ uel urbanitatis3, ut Iuuenalis..
- Vnde fit, ut malim fraterculus4 esse gigantum,
4: numero sillabarum .i. nó it lia desillabchi
P. 45a
1: forgenitne són 2: positi forgenitne 3: positi 4: compariti ⁊ superlati 5: incomparit 6: .i. superlait do comparit[1] 7: superlait 8: sech positi naconparite[2] oambiat 9: húare bís ɔṅdelgg indib 10: ócach mud ómbí ɔdelg 11: cenchondelg nindib .i. nibba cenadærscugud dineuch son · · 12: máanu 13: laigeniu 14: hi luc posit atá ego híc 15: inbec[3] máo .i. isbec as máo oldáusa .i. is bec inderscugud 16: cenaɔdelgg frinna aill
P. 45b
1: .i. robbí uárrecar less dígbail indḟolaid ɔidécen suin fria slond sidi huare nád robatar suin doṡlund indúildetad inchoisget 2: indrígain 3: hua accuiss sulbairichthe 4: bráithrán[4]
4. i.e. or they are more than disyllabism.
P. 45a
1. that is, over genitives. 2. positives over genitives. 3. positives. 4. comparatives and superlatives. 6. i.e. the superlative to the comparative. 8. beyond the positives of the comparatives from which they are. 9. since comparison is (inherent) in them. 10. in every mode in which is comparison. 11. without comparison in them, i.e. it will not be without its surpassing some (other). 14. in place of a positive ego is here. 15. a little greater i.e. she is a little greater than I, i.e. the distinction is small. 16. without their being compared to any other thing.
P. 45b
1. i.e. there may be a time when it is necessary[5] to diminish the substance so that there is need of words to signify it, because there were not words (enough) to signify the proper nature which they express. 3. because of politeness.
- ↑ rectius chomparit
- ↑ rectius nacomparite
- ↑ leg. inbiuc, or is becmáo a compound?
- ↑ MS. bráithráin, with punctum delens over the second i
- ↑ for recar for ronecar cf. Celt. Zeitschr. iv. 67. Here recar less has a subject in the nominative; but contrast the older construction in Wb. 12c3, Ml. 2a6, 22c14
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