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contempta

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

Found 47 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 8.8.1: Quae Caesar consentientibus pluribus cum cognosset atque ea quae proponerentur consilia plena prudentiae longeque a temeritate barbarorum remota esse iudicaret, omnibus rebus inserviendum statuit, quo celerius hostis contempta sua paucitate prodiret in aciem.

Ovid, Heroides 16.168: Contempta est virtus Pallade dante mihi.

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.