contumelia

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin contumēlia (“contumely, insult”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kon.tuˈmɛ.lja/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlja
  • Hyphenation: con‧tu‧mè‧lia

Noun

contumelia f (plural contumelie)

  1. contumely, insult

Latin

Etymology

Related to contumāx.

Pronunciation

Noun

contumēlia f (genitive contumēliae); first declension

  1. insult, reproach, contumely, abuse, mistreatment
    Synonyms: maledictum, probrum
    • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.11.2:
      ubi fuerit superbia, ibi erit et contumēlia: ubi autem humilitās, ibi et sapientia
      Where pride is, there also shall be reproach: but where humility is, there also is wisdom. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)
    • 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)
  2. affront, invective.
  3. humiliation, injury; assault, violence.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative contumēlia contumēliae
Genitive contumēliae contumēliārum
Dative contumēliae contumēliīs
Accusative contumēliam contumēliās
Ablative contumēliā contumēliīs
Vocative contumēlia contumēliae

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References

  • “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, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to insult some one: contumelia aliquem afficere
    • insulting expressions: verborum contumeliae
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