despicatus

From dēspicor.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /deːs.piˈkaː.tus/, [d̪eːs̠pɪˈkäːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /des.piˈka.tus/, [d̪espiˈkäːt̪us]

dēspicātus (feminine dēspicāta, neuter dēspicātum, comparative dēspicātior, superlative dēspicātissimus); first/second-declension participle

1. perfect active participle of dēspicor: in contempt, despised
   • c. 180 BCE, Plautus, Casina 2.2.17
   • 161 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Eunuchus 2.3.93
   • 70 BCE, Cicero, In Verrem 2.3.98
   • 56 BCE, Cicero, Pro Sestio 16

First/second-declension adjective.

From dēspicor (“despise, disdain”) +‎ -tus (action noun suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /deːs.piˈkaː.tus/, [d̪eːs̠pɪˈkäːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /des.piˈka.tus/, [d̪espiˈkäːt̪us]

dēspicātus m (genitive dēspicātūs); fourth declension

1. (very rare) scorn, contempt

   Synonym: dēspicātiō (feminine)

   • c. 200 BCE, Plautus, Menaechmi 4.3.19
   • 59 BCE, Cicero, Pro Flacco 65

• Only dative is known to occur.

Fourth-declension noun.

• dēspicātiō (feminine noun)
• dēspicābilis

• “despicatus (participle)”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “despicatus (noun)”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “despicatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• despicatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette