despectus

Perfect passive participle of dēspiciō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deːsˈpɛk.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [desˈpɛk.tus]

dēspectus (feminine dēspecta, neuter dēspectum, superlative dēspectissimus); first/second-declension participle

1. disdained, despised

First/second-declension adjective.

• dēspectō
• dēspectīvus

• Italian: dispetto
• Portuguese: despeito

From dēspiciō +‎ -tus (forming action nouns).

• dēspectus:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deːsˈpɛk.tʊs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [desˈpɛk.tus]
• dēspectūs:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deːsˈpɛk.tuːs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [desˈpɛk.tus]

dēspectus m (genitive dēspectūs); fourth declension

1. a prospect, panorama (view from above)
2. a looking down upon; a view
3. a spectacle (object of contempt)
4. a despising, contempt

Fourth-declension noun.

• “dēspectus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dēspectus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dēspectus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “dēspectus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “dēspectus / dēspectŭs”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.