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Latin
Etymology
Future passive participle or gerundive of dēspiciō.
Participle
dēspiciendus (feminine dēspicienda, neuter dēspiciendum); first/second-declension participle
- that which is “to be X-ed”, “deserving to be X-ed”, “fit to be X-ed”, “worth X-ing”... looked down upon, despised, disdained
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 5.639–642:
- ‘haec loca dēsertās vīdī sine moenibus herbās:
pāscēbat sparsās utrāque rīpā bovēs,
et quem nunc gentēs Tiberim nōruntque timentque,
tunc etiam pecorī dēspiciendus eram.’- “I saw these regions, forsaken grasslands, without city walls: And each river bank was pasture for scattered cattle; and , that Tiber which nations now know and fear, back then was fit to be looked down on even by livestock.”
(Personified voice of the River Tiber; see also Tiber.)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “despiciendus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers