despicio

== Latin == === Etymology === From dē- + speciō. Compare typologically Russian презира́ть (prezirátʹ) (akin to зреть (zretʹ), взор (vzor)). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [deːsˈpɪ.ki.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [desˈpiː.t͡ʃi.o] === Verb === dēspiciō (present infinitive dēspicere, perfect active dēspexī, supine dēspectum); third (-iō variant) conjugation to look down upon to disdain or despise to look away, disregard ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== dēspectus dēspectō ==== Descendants ==== Old French: despire → English: despise, despite ==== See also ==== dispiciō === References === “despicio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “despicio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “despicio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.