contemnoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Uncertain. By surface analysis, con- +‎ temnō. De Vaan argues that the verb temnō is likely a back-formation from contemnō, as contemnō has much older attestation. Regardless, the term likely derives from a nasal-infix verb from *temh₁-.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [kɔnˈtɛm.noː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [kon̪ˈt̪ɛm.no]

動詞

contemnō (present infinitive contemnere, perfect active contempsī or contemsī, supine contemptum or contemtum); third conjugation

1. to scorn, despise, show contempt

   Synonyms: āspernor, spernō, detrectō, abiciō, neglegō, trādūcō, cavillor

   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 47.10:

     Contemne nunc eius fortūnae hominem in quam trānsīre dum contemnis potes.

     Go ahead: show contempt for a man of this fortune — into which you [too] could be transformed! — even as you despise [him].
     (Seneca reminds arrogant slave-masters of a fact of life in the ancient world: even freeborn people of high social status could become enslaved due to dire circumstances.)

2. to disparage, consider a person or thing as unimportant or of small value; to disregard, think little of

   Synonyms: dēprimō, dētrectō, premō

3. to humble

   Synonyms: abiciō, dēprimō

Conjugation

派生語

• contemptus
• contumāx
• contumēlia

派生した語

• English: contemn, contempt

参照

• “contemno”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “contemno”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “contemno”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 609-610