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Latin
Pronunciation
Adjective
contumēliōsus (feminine contumēliōsa, neuter contumēliōsum, superlative contumēliōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- abusive, insolent
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “contumeliosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “contumeliosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- contumeliosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- insulting expressions: voces (verba) contumeliosae
- to use insulting expressions to any one: contumeliosis vocibus prosequi aliquem (vid. sect. VI. 11, note Prosequi...)