" contemn "

[Verb]  | "con*temn" | \ kən-ˈtem \

1: to view or treat with contempt : scorn

Origin: 15th century ;

 Middle English contempnen "to slight, spurn," borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French contempner "to despise, disdain," borrowed from Latin contemnere "to look down on , show no respect for, despise," from con- {see: |con-|com-} + temnere "to scorn, despise," of uncertain origin;

  * Note : The verb temnere is probably back-derived from contemnere, which is older and better attested. A comparison has been suggested with the Indo-European verb base *temh1- "cut," for which Greek also offers an n-present formation in támnein, témnein (see: {tome|tome}), though the semantic link is vague ("cut" > "cut off" > "shun" > "spurn, disdain"?). An older proposed link is with Greek stémbein "to shake about, handle roughly," supposedly comparable with Germanic *stampōn-/*stambōn- "to stamp, trample" (see: {stamp:1|stamp:1}), but *stemb- is scarcely an unimpeachable Indo-European root.;

[Verb]  | "contemn"