contumacia

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See also: contumácia and contumàcia

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin contumācia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kon.tuˈma.t͡ʃa/
  • Rhymes: -atʃa
  • Hyphenation: con‧tu‧mà‧cia

Noun

contumacia f (plural contumacie)

  1. (law) default
  2. (medicine) quarantine
    Synonym: quarantena

Further reading

  • contumacia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From contumāx (“stubborn”).

Pronunciation

Noun

contumācia f (genitive contumāciae); first declension

  1. arrogance, inflexibility, contumacy, stubbornness
  2. obstinate refusal to appear in court

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative contumācia contumāciae
genitive contumāciae contumāciārum
dative contumāciae contumāciīs
accusative contumāciam contumāciās
ablative contumāciā contumāciīs
vocative contumācia contumāciae

Descendants

References

  • “contumacia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “contumacia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • contumacia 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)
  • contumacia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the frank but defiant demeanour of Socrates (before his judges): libera contumacia Socratis (Tusc. 1. 29. 71)
  • “contumacia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Spanish

Noun

contumacia f (plural contumacias)

  1. contumacy, obstinacy
  2. contempt of court

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