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contemnenda

contemnenda is a Latin form of contemno, meaning “despise, scorn”. It is the gerundive nominative plural neuter or gerundive vocative plural neuter or gerundive accusative plural neuter or gerundive ablative singular feminine.

Found 37 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.132: … itaque ex illorum querimoniis intellegere possumus haec illis acerbissima videri quae forsitan nobis levia et contemnenda esse videantur. mihi credite, iudices,—tametsi vosmet ipsos haec eadem audire certo scio,—cum multas acceperi …

All forms of contemno (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.