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Significatio vocis contumelia | Babel Free

Nomen CEFR B2
[kɔn.tʊˈmeː.li.a]

Definitiones

  1. insult, reproach, contumely, abuse, mistreatment
  2. affront, invective
  3. humiliation, injury; assault, violence

Aequivalentia

Exempla

“[…] ; quamquam de gloria vix dicere ausim, si nos et hostes haud secus quam feminas abditos intra vallum omnibus contumeliis eludunt, et […]”

[…] ; though I had as lief not to speak of glory, when the enemy jeers us with much abuse as if women concealing behind walls, and […]

ubi fuerit superbia, ibi erit et contumēlia: ubi autem humilitās, ibi et sapientia

Where pride is, there also shall be reproach: but where humility is, there also is wisdom. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)

Quae nova ista contumelia est in Quirites, de quibus optimi poetae elogium est:”

What new insult is this to the Quirites of whom the great poet sings: (Coleman trans., 1922 CE)

Gradus CEFR

B2
Medius superior
Hoc verbum pars est vocabularii CEFR B2 — gradus medius superior.
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Vide etiam

Hoc verbum in contextu disce

Vide contumelia in veris colloquiis adhibitum in cursu nostro linguae gratuito.

Cursum Gratuitum Incipe

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