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spretis

spretis is a Latin form of sperno, meaning “scorn, despise, reject”. It is the perfect passive participle ablative plural feminine.

Found 28 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2.71: Sed tamen is fabulis spretis ac repudiatis deus pertinens per naturam cuiusque rei, per terras Ceres per maria Neptunus alii per alia, pot …

Apuleius, Metamorphoses 10.18: … famosos inde gladiatores comparaturus, iamque ex arbitrio dispositis coemptisque omnibus domuitionem parabat. Spretis luculentis illis suis vehiculis ac posthabitis decoris raedarum carpentis, quae partim confecta, partim revel …

All forms of sperno (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.