despiciendus
Latin
Etymology
Future passive participle or gerundive of dēspiciō.
Participle
dēspiciendus (feminine dēspicienda, neuter dēspiciendum); first/second-declension participle
- that which is “to be X-ed”, “deserving to be X-ed”, “fit to be X-ed”, “worth X-ing”... looked down upon, despised, disdained
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.639-642:
- ‘haec loca dēsertās vīdī sine moenibus herbās:
pāscēbat sparsās utrāque rīpā bovēs,
et quem nunc gentēs Tiberim nōruntque timentque,
tunc etiam pecorī dēspiciendus eram.’- “I saw these regions, forsaken grasslands, without city walls: And each river bank was pasture for scattered cattle; and [I], that Tiber which nations now know and fear, back then was fit to be looked down on even by livestock.”
(Personified voice of the River Tiber; see also Tiber.)
- “I saw these regions, forsaken grasslands, without city walls: And each river bank was pasture for scattered cattle; and [I], that Tiber which nations now know and fear, back then was fit to be looked down on even by livestock.”
- ‘haec loca dēsertās vīdī sine moenibus herbās:
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | dēspiciendus | dēspicienda | dēspiciendum | dēspiciendī | dēspiciendae | dēspicienda | |
| Genitive | dēspiciendī | dēspiciendae | dēspiciendī | dēspiciendōrum | dēspiciendārum | dēspiciendōrum | |
| Dative | dēspiciendō | dēspiciendō | dēspiciendīs | ||||
| Accusative | dēspiciendum | dēspiciendam | dēspiciendum | dēspiciendōs | dēspiciendās | dēspicienda | |
| Ablative | dēspiciendō | dēspiciendā | dēspiciendō | dēspiciendīs | |||
| Vocative | dēspiciende | dēspicienda | dēspiciendum | dēspiciendī | dēspiciendae | dēspicienda | |
References
- “despiciendus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers