contemnet
Dictionary entries
- Entry →contemno, contemnere, contempsi, contemptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
think little of; look down on, take poor view of; pay no heed/disregard/slight;; treat with/hold in contempt, scorn, disdain; despise; keep away from, avoid;
sg. fut. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
de Vita Beata
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...dispositio et magnificentia campum habeat patentem? 2. Non contemnet se sapiens, etiam si fuerit minimae staturae, esse tamen..."Liber Secundus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...occultum facinus esse potuerit, gaudebit; deprehensus omnem poenam contemnet. erit enim instructus ad mortem contemnendam, ad exilium..."Liber XXII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...hostis metuat quam stulti ciues laudent. Omnia audentem contemnet Hannibal, nihil temere agentem metuet. Nec ego ut nihil..."