뜻

1. 얕보다, 깔보다, 우습게 보다
2. 경멸하다, 멸시하다

1. I look down upon
2. I disdain or despise

예문

• Quis mihi det te fratrem meum, sugentem ubera matris meae, ut inveniam te foris et deosculer te, et iam me nemo despiciat? (Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Canticum Canticorum, 8 8:1)

  (여자) 아, 당신이 내 어머니의 젖을 함께 빨던 오라버니 같다면! 거리에서 당신을 만날 때 누구의 경멸도 받지 않고 나 당신에게 입 맞출 수 있으련만. (불가타 성경, 아가, 8장 8:1)

• Qui dedit ergo tribus patruis aconita, vehatur pensilibus plumis atque illinc despiciat nos? (Juvenal, Satires, book 1, Satura I 1:69)

  (유베날리스, 풍자, 1권, 1:69)

• Aspice quam longo distinguat pectore lancem quae fertur domino squilla, et quibus undique saepta asparagis qua despiciat convivia cauda, dum venit excelsi manibus sublata ministri. (Juvenal, Satires, book 1, Satura V 5:40)

  (유베날리스, 풍자, 1권, 5:40)

• videtis ut omnis despiciat, ut hominem prae se neminem putet, ut se solum beatum, solum potentem putet. (M. Tullius Cicero, pro Sex. Roscio Amerino Oratio, chapter 46 3:2)

  (마르쿠스 툴리우스 키케로, 로스키우스 변호문, 46장 3:2)

• primum, quod est res illa simplicior, proponitur enim uno modo, dissolvitur varie, cum accusatori satis sit , verum esse id, quod obiecerit, patronus neget, defendat, transferat, excuset, deprecetur, molliat, minuat, avertat, despiciat, derideat. (Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Liber V 290:3)

  (퀸틸리아누스, 변론 가정 교육, 290:3)

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