contemptor

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin contemnō

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Latin contemptor

From contemnō + -tor.

Noun

contemptor m (genitive contemptōris); third declension

1. contemner, despiser

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	contemptor	contemptōrēs
genitive	contemptōris	contemptōrum
dative	contemptōrī	contemptōribus
accusative	contemptōrem	contemptōrēs
ablative	contemptōre	contemptōribus
vocative	contemptor	contemptōrēs

Descendants

• Middle French: contempteur
  • French: contempteur

References

• “contemptor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “contemptor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “contemptor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.