contumelia
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin contumēlia (“contumely, insult”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
contumelia f (plural contumelie)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Related to contumāx.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kon.tuˈmeː.li.a/, [kɔn̪t̪ʊˈmeːlʲiä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kon.tuˈme.li.a/, [kon̪t̪uˈmɛːliä]
Noun edit
contumēlia f (genitive contumēliae); first declension
- insult, reproach, contumely, abuse, mistreatment
- Synonyms: maledictum, probrum
- Lorenzo Valla, Discourse on the Forgery of the Alleged Donation of Constantine :
- Quae nova ista contumelia est in Quirites, de quibus optimi poetae elogium est:
- What new insult is this to the Quirites of whom the great poet sings: (Coleman trans., 1922 CE)
- Quae nova ista contumelia est in Quirites, de quibus optimi poetae elogium est:
- affront, invective.
- humiliation, injury; assault, violence.
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | contumēlia | contumēliae |
Genitive | contumēliae | contumēliārum |
Dative | contumēliae | contumēliīs |
Accusative | contumēliam | contumēliās |
Ablative | contumēliā | contumēliīs |
Vocative | contumēlia | contumēliae |
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Asturian: contumenia
- Catalan: contumèlia
- English: contumely
- French: contumélie
- Galician: contumelia
- Italian: contumelia
- Occitan: contumelia
- Portuguese: contumélia
- Spanish: contumelia
References edit
- “contumelia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “contumelia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- contumelia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to insult some one: contumelia aliquem afficere
- insulting expressions: verborum contumeliae
- to insult some one: contumelia aliquem afficere