contemptio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin contemnō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin contemptiō

From contemnō (“to scorn, despise”) + -tiō.

Noun

contemptiō f (genitive contemptiōnis); third declension

1. contempt, scorn, disdain

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	contemptiō	contemptiōnēs
genitive	contemptiōnis	contemptiōnum
dative	contemptiōnī	contemptiōnibus
accusative	contemptiōnem	contemptiōnēs
ablative	contemptiōne	contemptiōnibus
vocative	contemptiō	contemptiōnēs

Descendants

• English: contemption
• Middle French: contemption
  • French: contemption

References

• “contemptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “contemptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "contemptio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “contemptio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.