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contumeliam

contumeliam is a Latin form of contumelia, meaning “insult, abuse, affront”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 127 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 3.13.3: naves totae factae ex robore ad quamvis vim et contumeliam perferendam;

Plautus, Pseudolus 4.7.1173: Contumeliam si dices, audies.

All forms of contumelia (declension 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.