despicabilis
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]dēspicābilis (neuter dēspicābile); third-declension two-termination adjective
- (Late Latin) contemptible, wretched, worthless
- c. 580 CE, Gregory I, Moralia in Job 10.30:
- […] a cunctis vero despicabilis cernitur, et huius mundi gratia indignus aestimatur.
- […] but he is seen as wretched by all, and held unworthy of the regard of this world.
- […] a cunctis vero despicabilis cernitur, et huius mundi gratia indignus aestimatur.
Declension
[edit]Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
| nominative | dēspicābilis | dēspicābile | dēspicābilēs | dēspicābilia | |
| genitive | dēspicābilis | dēspicābilium | |||
| dative | dēspicābilī | dēspicābilibus | |||
| accusative | dēspicābilem | dēspicābile | dēspicābilēs dēspicābilīs |
dēspicābilia | |
| ablative | dēspicābilī | dēspicābilibus | |||
| vocative | dēspicābilis | dēspicābile | dēspicābilēs | dēspicābilia | |
Descendants
[edit]- → English: despicable
References
[edit]- “despicabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- despicabilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Souter, Alexander (1949) “despicabilis”, in A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.[1], 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1957, page 98
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “despicabilis”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources[2], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC