contumaces
Dictionary entries
- Entry →contumax, contumacis (gen.), contumacior -or -us, contumacissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
proud/unyielding/stubborn/defiant; (usu. bad); insolent/stiff-necked/obstinate;; willfully disobedient to decree/summons; not yielding, immovable (things);
acc. pl. (m./f.)nom. pl. (m./f.)voc. pl. (m./f.)
Examples
- L
Liber VIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...Errare mihi videntur qui existimant philosophiae fideliter deditos contumaces esse ac refractarios, contemptores magistratuum aut regum eorumve..." - L
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...putant, ubi idem equi obsequentes alteri equiti, alteri contumaces sunt, tamquam iudicio, non consuetudine et arte tractandi quaedam..." - M
I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...facie patris oculi; non inludere infelicibus tenebris contumaces servuli poterant, nec, quod extremum contumeliarum genus est, ut dominum..." - P
Liber IV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...audienti nihil quidempravae cogitationis, sed interdum voces procedebant contumaces et inconsultae, quas adpositi custodes exceptas auctasque cum deferrent..."