contumeliaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [kɔn.tʊˈmeː.li.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [kon̪.t̪uˈmɛː.li.a]

名詞

contumēlia f (genitive contumēliae); first declension

1. insult, reproach, contumely, abuse, mistreatment

   Synonyms: maledictum, probrum

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 7.13:

     […] ; quamquam de gloria vix dicere ausim, si nos et hostes haud secus quam feminas abditos intra vallum omnibus contumeliis eludunt, et […]

     […] ; though I had as lief not to speak of glory, when the enemy jeers us with much abuse as if women concealing behind walls, and […]

   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.11.2:

     ubi fuerit superbia, ibi erit et contumēlia: ubi autem humilitās, ibi et sapientia

     Where pride is, there also shall be reproach: but where humility is, there also is wisdom. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)

   • Lorenzo Valla, Discourse on the Forgery of the Alleged Donation of Constantine:

     Quae nova ista contumelia est in Quirites, de quibus optimi poetae elogium est:

     What new insult is this to the Quirites of whom the great poet sings: (Coleman trans., 1922 CE)

2. affront, invective
3. humiliation, injury; assault, violence

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生語

• contumēliō
• contumēliōsus

関連する語

• contumēliōsē

派生した語

参照

• “contumelia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “contumelia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “contumelia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to insult some one: contumelia aliquem afficere
    
  • insulting expressions: verborum contumeliae