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contemnit

contemnit is a Latin form of contemno, meaning “despise, scorn”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 47 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Philippicae 3.15: … es qui sumus e municipiis id est, omnes plane: quotus enim quisque nostrum non est? quod autem municipium non contemnit is qui Aricinum tanto opere despicit, vetustate antiquissimum, iure foederatum, propinquitate paene finitimum …

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.