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Latin
Etymology
dēspicor + -bilis
Adjective
dēspicābilis (neuter dēspicābile); third-declension two-termination adjective
- (Late Latin) contemptible, wretched, worthless
c. 580 CE,
Gregory I,
Moralia in Job 10.30:
- a cunctis vero despicabilis cernitur, et huius mundi gratia indignus aestimatur.
- but he is seen as wretched by all, and held unworthy of the regard of this world.
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Descendants
References
- “despicabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- despicabilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Souter, Alexander (1949) “despicabilis”, in A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D., 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1957, page 98
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “despicabilis”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC