aspernatio
Dictionary entries
- Entry →aspernatio, aspernationis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
contempt; spurning; rejection of; aversion to;
nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
- L
Liber X
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...permanendi conservandique se insita voluntas atque aspernatio dissolutionis, * * * quia videtur multa nobis bona eripere..." - L
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...sunt, ut horror frigida adspersis, ad quosdam tactus aspernatio; ad peiores nuntios surriguntur pili et rubor ad inproba..."