contemptio Latin · revision 32704

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=1st century BC, Rhetorica ad Herennium|origins=la contemnō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''contemptiō''' ''f'' (genitive contemptiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''contemtiō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The plural is not found.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|contemnō|-tiō|t1=to despise, scorn]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan takes [[m|la|contemnō]] as older than the simple [[temno|alt=temnō]], which was back-formed from it; its origin is disputed, between a root meaning “to shake, pound” and [[ine-pro|*tm-n(e)-h₁-|t=to cut]], the root of [[grc|τέμνω|tr=témnō|t=to cut]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL records it from the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' and Cicero on,^(TLL) and the ''Rhetorica'' speaks of contempt for humble things and of bringing opponents into hatred and contempt.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the act of despising, scorn, and the state of being despised.^(OLD 2012) It is also disregard: the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' defines courage as disregard of toil and danger, and Cicero calls fortitude a disregard of pains and toils.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero speaks of contempt and disdain for all human things.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The TLL finds it in Caesar, Livy, Seneca, Curtius, Pliny the Elder, Tacitus, Gellius, Apuleius and the Vulgate.^(TLL) Glosses render it with [[grc|καταφρόνησις|tr=kataphrónēsis|t=contempt]].^(TLL) Church Latin glosses it contempt.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1st century BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' of scorn and of courage.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of fortitude and of contempt for human things.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|contempt|alt=Contempt]], [[m|en|scorn]], disdain; the state of being despised.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Disregard, paying no heed (to toil, danger or pain).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[contemno|alt=contemnō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}