despicabilis

Latin

dēspicābilis (neuter dēspicābile); third-declension two-termination adjective

(Late Latin) contemptible, wretched, worthless
- c. 580 CE, Gregory I, Moralia in Job 10.30:
  […] a cunctis vero despicabilis cernitur, et huius mundi gratia indignus aestimatur.
  […] but he is seen as wretched by all, and held unworthy of the regard of this world.

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter	Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Number	Singular		Plural
Nominative	dēspicābilis	dēspicābile	dēspicābilēs	dēspicābilia
Genitive	dēspicābilis		dēspicābilium
Dative	dēspicābilī		dēspicābilibus
Accusative	dēspicābilem	dēspicābile	dēspicābilēs dēspicābilīs	dēspicābilia
Ablative	dēspicābilī		dēspicābilibus
Vocative	dēspicābilis	dēspicābile	dēspicābilēs	dēspicābilia

“despicabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
despicabilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Souter, Alexander (1949) “despicabilis”, in A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.‎, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1957, page 98
R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “despicabilis”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC

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