Contemno

Latin-English

contemn|ō, -ĕre, contempsī, contemptum. (konˈtem.no) v. trans.

1. To hold in contempt.

[cum + temno.]

Loci

• αʹ Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 2.7:

Miserrimus omnis saeculi maritus: sic contempta absentia mea etiamnunc iniuriam meam nescirem, si qui fecerat tacere voluisset.

I'm the most miserable husband of all time - even now I wouldn't have known that I'd been wronged in my wretched absence if the man who had done it had wanted to keep quiet.