contemptu

contemptu is a Latin form of contemno, meaning “despise, scorn”.

It can also be a form of contemptus, “contempt/scorn/despising (act/state); ignominy; disregard”. It is the ablative singular masculine noun or supine dative singular neuter.

Found 56 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.684: contemptuque dolens, ne sim spernenda futuris,

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.