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Irregular Adverbs

POSITIVE DEGREE		COMPARATIVE DEGREE		SUPERLATIVE DEGREE
ADJECTIVE	ADVERB	ADJECTIVE	ADVERB	ADJECTIVE	ADVERB
bonus,-a,-um	bene	melior,melius	melius	optimus,-a,-um	optime
malus	male	peior, peius	peius	pessimus	pessime
magnus	magnopere	maior, maius	magis	maximus	maxime
multus	multum	—, plus	plus	plurimus	plurimum
parvus	parum	minor, minus	minus	minimus	minime
(prae / pro)	—	prior, prius	prius	primus	primo (time) primum (logic)
(prope)	prope	propior, propius	propius	proximus	proxime
	diu		diutius		diutissime
	saepe		saepius		saepissime
	nuper		—		nuperrime
	—		potius		potissime

Note 1: In the comparative degree, the adverb is the neuter accusative singular of the adjective.

Note 2: In the positive degree, the adverb is occasionally the neuter accusative singular of the adjective: multum, paulum, facile

Note 3: Other adverbial suffixes also can occur, the most important of which is -TIM (the distributive suffix): singulatim (one by one, singly), paulatim (bit by bit, gradually), carptim (piece by piece, separately, at different points, at different times, now and then).