DESPICIENS, despiciens
Sounds Like: des-PIH-kee-ens
Translations: despising, looking down upon, scorning, disdaining, one who despises, a despiser
From the root: DESPICIO
Part of Speech: Verb, Adjective
Explanation: Despiciens is the present active participle of the Latin verb despicere, meaning 'to look down upon' or 'to despise'. As a participle, it describes an ongoing action and can function as both a verb (e.g., 'he despising') and an adjective (e.g., 'the despising person'). It indicates someone or something that is currently in the act of despising or looking down on something or someone else.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative or Accusative, Masculine, Feminine or Neuter, Present Active Participle
Instances
Josephus' Against Apion
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, DESPICIO.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- DESPICIENTES — despising, looking down upon, scorning, disdaining
- DESPICIO — to look down upon, to despise, to disdain, to scorn, to contemn, to look down from, to look down on
- DESPICITIS — you despise, you look down on, you scorn
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