despectus

== Latin == === Etymology 1 === Perfect passive participle of dēspiciō. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [deːsˈpɛk.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [desˈpɛk.tus] ==== Participle ==== dēspectus (feminine dēspecta, neuter dēspectum, superlative dēspectissimus); first/second-declension participle disdained, despised ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. ===== Related terms ===== dēspectō dēspectīvus ===== Descendants ===== Italian: dispetto Portuguese: despeito === Etymology 2 === From dēspiciō + -tus (forming action nouns). ==== Pronunciation ==== dēspectus: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [deːsˈpɛk.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [desˈpɛk.tus] dēspectūs: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [deːsˈpɛk.tuːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [desˈpɛk.tus] ==== Noun ==== dēspectus m (genitive dēspectūs); fourth declension a prospect, panorama (view from above) a looking down upon; a view a spectacle (object of contempt) a despising, contempt ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. ===== Descendants ===== === References === “dēspectus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “dēspectus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “dēspectus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “dēspectus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “dēspectus / dēspectŭs”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.