contempto

contempto is a Latin form of contemno, meaning “despise, scorn”. It is the perfect passive participle ablative singular neuter.

Found 27 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 5.105: … s dico litteris, quibus infinitatem rerum atque naturae et in hoc ipso mundo caelum terras maria cognoscimus. Contempto igitur honore, contempta etiam pecunia quid relinquitur quod extimescendum sit?

Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.141: si venerem paterer: contempto munere Phoebi

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.