뜻

1. 제거하다, 나누다, 분리하다, 가르다
2. 경멸하다, 거절하다, 송환하다, 돌려보내다, 깔보다

1. I sever, separate, remove
2. I despise, reject, scorn, spurn

예문

• nam incipiente C. Bibulo ceteri quoque aediles disseruerant, sperni sumptuariam legem vetitaque utensilium pretia augeri in dies nec mediocribus remediis sisti posse, et consulti patres integrum id negotium ad principem distulerant. (Cornelius Tacitus, Annales, LIBER III, chapter 52 52:4)

  (코르넬리우스 타키투스, 연대기, , 52장 52:4)

• sperni quippe adoptionem, quaeque censuerint patres, iusserit populus, intra penatis abrogari; (Cornelius Tacitus, Annales, LIBER XII, chapter 41 41:11)

  (코르넬리우스 타키투스, 연대기, , 41장 41:11)

• tribuendum aliquod telum quod sperni nequeat. (Cornelius Tacitus, Annales, LIBER XIII, chapter 26 26:7)

  (코르넬리우스 타키투스, 연대기, , 26장 26:7)

• Domitianus sperni a senioribus iuventam suam cernens modica quoque et usurpata antea munia imperii omittebat, simplicitatis ac modestiae imagine in altitudinem conditus studiumque litterarum et amorem carminum simulans, quo velaret animum et fratris aemulationi subduceret, cuius disparem mitioremque naturam contra interpretabatur. (Cornelius Tacitus, Historiae, LIBER IV, chapter 86 86:6)

  (코르넬리우스 타키투스, 역사, , 86장 86:6)

• Sed, ut possit oratio eorum sperni, tamen fides nostra non debet : (Curtius Rufus, Quintus, Historiae Alexandri Magni, book 7, chapter 8 12:2)

  (쿠르티우스 루푸스, 퀸투스, 알렉산드로스 대왕 전기, 7권, 8장 12:2)

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