Contemptusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Perfect passive participle of contemnō (“to despise”).

Participle

contemptus (feminine contempta, neuter contemptum); first/second-declension participle

1. scorned, having been scorned
2. disparaged, having been disparaged
3. humbled, having been humbled

形容詞

contemptus (feminine contempta, neuter contemptum, comparative contemptior, superlative contemptissimus, adverb contemptim); first/second-declension adjective

1. despised, despicable
2. contemptible, vile
3. valued little, disregarded
   • Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni, Book VI

     Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.

     A small spark neglected has often roused to a great inferno.

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

語源 2

From contemnō +‎ -tus (forming action nouns).

名詞

contemptus m (genitive contemptūs); fourth declension

1. a despising, contempting; contempt, scorn
2. a being despised, contempted
3. ignominy

語形変化

Fourth-declension noun.

参照

• “contemptus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “contemptus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “contemptus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “contemptus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “contemptus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.