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contumelias

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

Found 59 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 2.14.3: impulsos ab suis principibus, qui dicerent Haeduos a Caesare in servitutem redactos omnes indignitates contumeliasque perferre, et ab Haeduis defecisse et populo Romano bellum intulisse.

Seneca the Younger, De Constantia Sapientis 19.3: … quisque honestior genere fama patrimonio est, hoc se fortius gerat, memor in prima acie altos ordines stare. Contumelias et uerba probrosa et ignominias et cetera dehonestamenta uelut clamorem hostium ferat et longinqua tela et sa …

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.