- lesser (adj.)
[lesser 词源字典]
- early 13c., a double comparative, from less + -er (2). Johnson calls it "a barbarous corruption of less, formed by the vulgar from the habit of terminating comparatives in -er." As an adverb from 1590s; now generally poetic or obsolete except in expression lesser-known (1813).[lesser etymology, lesser origin, 英语词源]