despiciendus

Latin

Etymology

Future passive participle or gerundive of dēspiciō.

Participle

dēspiciendus (feminine dēspicienda, neuter dēspiciendum); first/second-declension participle

1. that which is “to be X-ed”, “deserving to be X-ed”, “fit to be X-ed”, “worth X-ing”... looked down upon, despised, disdained
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.639–642:

     ‘haec loca dēsertās vīdī sine moenibus herbās:
     pāscēbat sparsās utrāque rīpā bovēs,
     et quem nunc gentēs Tiberim nōruntque timentque,
     tunc etiam pecorī dēspiciendus eram.’

     “I saw these regions, forsaken grasslands, without city walls: And each river bank was pasture for scattered cattle; and [I], that Tiber which nations now know and fear, back then was fit to be looked down on even by livestock.”
     (Personified voice of the River Tiber; see also Tiber.)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	dēspiciendus	dēspicienda	dēspiciendum		dēspiciendī	dēspiciendae	dēspicienda
Genitive	dēspiciendī	dēspiciendae	dēspiciendī		dēspiciendōrum	dēspiciendārum	dēspiciendōrum
Dative	dēspiciendō		dēspiciendō		dēspiciendīs
Accusative	dēspiciendum	dēspiciendam	dēspiciendum		dēspiciendōs	dēspiciendās	dēspicienda
Ablative	dēspiciendō	dēspiciendā	dēspiciendō		dēspiciendīs
Vocative	dēspiciende	dēspicienda	dēspiciendum		dēspiciendī	dēspiciendae	dēspicienda

References

• “despiciendus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers