The corpus record — Latin

temno

temno · v. a

to slight

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Where it lives

Praefatiunculae 1 · 18.25/10k
de Bello Gothico 2 · 4.96/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
Satyrarum libri 2 · 1.41/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Argonautica 3 · 0.81/10k
Aeneid 5 · 0.79/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Thebais 3 · 0.48/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. temno — Lewis & Short

temno, ĕre, v. a.root tam-, to cut; Gr. te/mnw,

I to slight, scorn, disdain, despise, contemn (poet. and very rare for the class. contemnere); semper aves quod abest praesentia temnis, Lucr. 3, 957; jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit, Hor. S. 2, 2, 38: divos, Verg. A. 6, 620: praeteritum temnens extremos inter euntem, Hor. S. 1, 1, 116: ne temne, quod ultro Praeferimus manibus vittas et verba precantia, Verg. A. 7, 236: pars non temnenda decoris, Ov. A. A. 3, 299; cf.: haud temnendae manus ductor, Tac. H. 3, 47.

2. temnó — Walde–Hofmann

temnó, tempsi, temptum, -ere „verachte, verschmähe“ (seit Lucr., temnibilis Cassiod. gewöhnl. ersetzt durch perfektives contemnó „verachte; äußere mich geringschätzig* seit Pit. [contemptim seit Plt., contemptius seit Suet,, contemptio seit Cic., -tibilis seit Itala, incontemptilis Tert.]; Einzelheiten s. Ernout-Meillet? 1022): wohl aus *temb-nó eigtl. „trete mit den Füßen“ (vgl. z. B. contemn0, synon. calcó Scr. h. … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. temnó, p. 1565]

In the wild

temnens Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 7.228
temne Ausonius, Praefatiunculae 1.39
temnis Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 3.957
temnit Horace, Satyrarum libri 2.2.38
temnit Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 6.124
temnere Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 5.127

6 of 26 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. temnó (scan p. 1565; entry #2956).

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