despectus

Latin

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of dēspiciō.

Pronunciation

Participle

dēspectus (feminine dēspecta, neuter dēspectum, superlative dēspectissimus)Category:Latin non-lemma forms#DESPECTUSCategory:Latin participles#DESPECTUSCategory:Latin perfect participles#DESPECTUSCategory:Latin first and second declension participles#DESPECTUSCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#DESPECTUSCategory:Pages with entries#DESPECTUSCategory:Pages with 1 entry#DESPECTUS; first/second-declension participle

  1. disdained, despised
Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Descendants

Etymology 2

From dēspiciō +‎ -tus (forming action nouns)Category:Latin terms suffixed with -tus (action noun)#DESPECTUS.

Pronunciation

Noun

dēspectus m (genitive dēspectūs)Category:Latin lemmas#DESPECTUSCategory:Latin nouns#DESPECTUSCategory:Latin fourth declension nouns#DESPECTUSCategory:Latin masculine nouns in the fourth declension#DESPECTUSCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#DESPECTUSCategory:Latin masculine nouns#DESPECTUSCategory:Pages with entries#DESPECTUSCategory:Pages with 1 entry#DESPECTUS; fourth declension

  1. a prospect, panorama (view from above)
  2. a looking down upon; a view
  3. a spectacle (object of contempt)
  4. a despising, contempt
Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Descendants

References

  • “dēspectus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “dēspectus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “dēspectus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “dēspectus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “dēspectus / dēspectŭs”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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