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Latin
Etymology
Derived from contemnō (“I scorn, despise”) + -āx (“inclined to”),[1] or from con- + tumēre (“to swell”) + -āx.
Pronunciation
Adjective
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
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “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.