contumax
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Derived from contemnō (“I scorn, despise”) + -āx (“inclined to”),[1] or from con- + tumēre (“to swell”) + -āx.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkon.tu.maːks/, [ˈkɔn̪t̪ʊmäːks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkon.tu.maks/, [ˈkɔn̪t̪umäks]
Adjective edit
contumāx (genitive contumācis, comparative contumācior, adverb contumāciter); third-declension one-termination adjective
- insolent, obstinate, stiff-necked, defiant
- (law) who refuses to appear in a court of law, in disobedience of a summons
- (of inanimate objects) unyielding, providing opposition
Declension edit
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | contumāx | contumācēs | contumācia | ||
| Genitive | contumācis | contumācium | |||
| Dative | contumācī | contumācibus | |||
| Accusative | contumācem | contumāx | contumācēs | contumācia | |
| Ablative | contumācī | contumācibus | |||
| Vocative | contumāx | contumācēs | contumācia | ||
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → English: contumacious
- → French: contumace
- → Italian: contumace
- → Portuguese: contumaz
- → Sicilian: cuntumaci
- → Spanish: contumaz
References edit
- “contumax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “contumax”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- contumax in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- contumax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ “contumax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press