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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of spernō
Participle
sprētus (feminine sprēta, neuter sprētum); first/second-declension participle
- Having been severed
- Having been despised, rejected
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 1.26–27:
- manet altā mente repostum
iūdicium Paridis sprētaeque iniūria fōrmae,- remaining, being stored deep within mind,
the judgment of Paris and the insult of her beauty having been rejected .
(See: Judgement of Paris.)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “spretus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “spretus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- spretus 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)