contempsit

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

Found 50 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.58: … os tota Sicilia decumanorum hos impetus, aratorum direptiones, huius importunitatem, Aproni regnum proponite. contempsit Siculos; non duxit homines nec ipsos ad persequendum vehementis fore, et vos eorum iniurias leviter laturos e …

Phaedrus, Fabulae 1.28.7: Contempsit illa, tuta quippe ipso loco.

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.