contumacia

See also: contumácia and contumàcia

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin contumācia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kon.tuˈma.t͡ʃa/
• Rhymes: -atʃa
• Hyphenation: con‧tu‧mà‧cia

Noun

contumacia f (plural contumacie)

1. (law) default
2. (medicine) quarantine

   Synonym: quarantena

Related terms

• contumace

Further reading

• contumacia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• accomunati, comunicata

Latin

Etymology

From contumāx (“stubborn”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kon.tuˈmaː.ki.a/, [kɔn̪t̪ʊˈmäːkiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon.tuˈma.t͡ʃi.a/, [kon̪t̪uˈmäːt͡ʃiä]

Noun

contumācia f (genitive contumāciae); first declension

1. arrogance, inflexibility, contumacy, stubbornness
2. obstinate refusal to appear in court

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	contumācia	contumāciae
genitive	contumāciae	contumāciārum
dative	contumāciae	contumāciīs
accusative	contumāciam	contumāciās
ablative	contumāciā	contumāciīs
vocative	contumācia	contumāciae

Related terms

• contumāciter
• contumāx
• contumēliōsē
• contumēliōsus

Descendants

• → Catalan: contumàcia
• → English: contumacy
• → French: contumace
• → German: Kontumaz
• → Italian: contumacia
• → Portuguese: contumácia
• → Sicilian: cuntumacia
• → Spanish: contumacia

References

• “contumacia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “contumacia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• contumacia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• contumacia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the frank but defiant demeanour of Socrates (before his judges): libera contumacia Socratis (Tusc. 1. 29. 71)
    
• “contumacia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Spanish

Noun

contumacia f (plural contumacias)

1. contumacy, obstinacy
2. contempt of court

Further reading

• “contumacia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10