뜻

1. 경멸하다, 업신여기다, 깔보다, 비웃다

1. I scorn, despise

예문

• nam nec tributis contemnuntur nec publicanus atterit; (Cornelius Tacitus, de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber, chapter 29 2:2)

  (코르넬리우스 타키투스, 게르만 족의 기원과 위치, 29장 2:2)

• Quam ob rem, ut ante dixi, contemnuntur ii, qui nec sibi nec alteri, ut dicitur, in quibus nullus labor, nulla industria, nulla cura est. (M. Tullius Cicero, De Officiis, Liber Secundus 47:6)

  (마르쿠스 툴리우스 키케로, 의무론, 47:6)

• quibus igitur rationibus instantia feruntur, eisdem contemnuntur sequentia. (M. Tullius Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, book 4 64:4)

  (마르쿠스 툴리우스 키케로, 투스쿨라눔의 대화, 4권 64:4)

• nonnunquam tamen quaedam bene et contemnuntur vel tanquam levia vel tanquam nihil ad causam pertinentia. (Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Liber V 310:1)

  (퀸틸리아누스, 변론 가정 교육, 310:1)

• Sequitur, ut quae ab inconsultis saepe contemnuntur, a sapientibus semper, ea nec bona sint nec mala. (Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, book 9, letter 76 21:1)

  (세네카, , , 21:1)

유의어 사전

1. Spernimus rejicienda, fugienda ut libidines. Contemnimus magna, metuenda ut pericula, mortem. Despicimus infra nos posita, ut vulgi opiniones; according to Lambinus. Or, spernere, spernari, aspernari (ἐκπέραίνειν) mean, not to care for a thing, in opp. to appetere, concupisse, Cic. Fin. ii. 10, 51. Plaut. Mil. iv. 2, 59, something like ἀποβάλλειν; whereas contemnere, poetically temnere (from temere), not to fear a thing, in opp. to timere, metuere, Cic. Fam. vii. 32. Att. ii. 24. Sen. Prov. 6. Tac. H. ii. 92, like καταφρονεῖν; lastly, despicere, despectare, not to value a thing, in opp. to suspicere, revereri, admirari. Cic. Off. ii. 11, 38. Tac. Ann. ii. 43, like ὀλιγωρεῖν. 2. Spernere denotes despising, as an inward feeling, synonymously with parvi putare, negligere; spernari, and the more usual word, aspernari, as an utterance of that feeling, synonymously with recusare, abnuere, rejicere, like waving from one. In spernere, the notion of holding cheap predominates; in aspernari, that of aversion or rejection. Spernere refers to an object which is at one’s command; aspernari, to something offered to us, or obtruded upon us. 3. Aspernari is confined to the simple avowal of aversion; whereas recusare includes the decided declaration of unwillingness. Curt. vi. 6, 7. Principes aspernantes quidem, sed recusare non ausos Persicis ornaverat vestibus. 4. The spernens follows a moral and rational aversion, and acts more or less with a consciousness of his grounds for despising anything; whereas the fastidiens follows a physical and instinctive aversion, whether it be an innate or temporary antipathy, which arises either from an actual loathing, or from what appears like it; lastly, the negligens follows the suggestion neither of reason, nor yet of instinct and feeling, but acts without thought or purpose. (ii. 178.)

출처: Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig von Doederlein