despectus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of dēspiciō.

Participle

dēspectus (feminine dēspecta, neuter dēspectum, superlative dēspectissimus); first/second-declension participle

1. disdained, despised

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	dēspectus	dēspecta	dēspectum		dēspectī	dēspectae	dēspecta
Genitive	dēspectī	dēspectae	dēspectī		dēspectōrum	dēspectārum	dēspectōrum
Dative	dēspectō		dēspectō		dēspectīs
Accusative	dēspectum	dēspectam	dēspectum		dēspectōs	dēspectās	dēspecta
Ablative	dēspectō	dēspectā	dēspectō		dēspectīs
Vocative	dēspecte	dēspecta	dēspectum		dēspectī	dēspectae	dēspecta

Related terms

• dēspectō
• despectivus

Descendants

• Italian: dispetto

Noun

dēspectus m (genitive dēspectūs); fourth declension

1. a prospect, panorama (view from above)
2. a looking down upon; a view
3. a spectacle (object of contempt)
4. a despising, contempt

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dēspectus	dēspectūs
Genitive	dēspectūs	dēspectuum
Dative	dēspectuī	dēspectibus
Accusative	dēspectum	dēspectūs
Ablative	dēspectū	dēspectibus
Vocative	dēspectus	dēspectūs

Descendants

• Catalan: despit
• Dalmatian: dispiat
• Galician: despeito
• Italian: dispetto
• Old French: despit
  • → English: despite
  • French: dépit
• Piedmontese: dispet
• Portuguese: despeito
• Spanish: despecho

References

• “despectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “despectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• despectus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.