despectus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of dēspiciō.
Participle
dēspectus (feminine dēspecta, neuter dēspectum, superlative dēspectissimus); first/second-declension participle
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | dēspectus | dēspecta | dēspectum | dēspectī | dēspectae | dēspecta | |
Genitive | dēspectī | dēspectae | dēspectī | dēspectōrum | dēspectārum | dēspectōrum | |
Dative | dēspectō | dēspectō | dēspectīs | ||||
Accusative | dēspectum | dēspectam | dēspectum | dēspectōs | dēspectās | dēspecta | |
Ablative | dēspectō | dēspectā | dēspectō | dēspectīs | |||
Vocative | dēspecte | dēspecta | dēspectum | dēspectī | dēspectae | dēspecta |
Related terms
Descendants
- English: despised
- Italian: dispetto
- Spanish: despectivo
Noun
dēspectus m (genitive dēspectūs); fourth declension
- a prospect, panorama (view from above)
- a looking down upon; a view
- a spectacle (object of contempt)
- a despising, contempt
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | dēspectus | dēspectūs |
Genitive | dēspectūs | dēspectuum |
Dative | dēspectuī | dēspectibus |
Accusative | dēspectum | dēspectūs |
Ablative | dēspectū | dēspectibus |
Vocative | dēspectus | dēspectūs |
Descendants
References
- “despectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “despectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- despectus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.