Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /kataɸronéo/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /katafronéo/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /katafɾonéo/

Verb

καταφρονέω • ‎(kataphronéō)

1. to look down on, think slightly of
   • Herodotus, Histories 4.134
   • Euripides, The Bacchae 199
   • Lysias, Collected Works 12.78
   • Plato, Apology 28.C
   • Plato, Gorgias 512.C
   • Xenophon, Cynegeticus 1.18
   • Antiphanes Comicus, Unknown Work 43
   • Menander, The Helmsmen 10
   • Menander, The Woman From Boeotia 1
   1. (with accusative) to regard slightly, despise
      • Herodotus, Histories 8.10
      • Euripides, The Bacchae 503
      • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.34
      • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.8
      • Plato, The Republic 556.D
      • Xenophon, Hellenica 7.4.30
   2. to be disdainful, deal contemptuously
      • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.11
      • Aristotle, Rhetoric 1378.B.15
      • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 5.44
      • Euripides, The Bacchae 199
   3. (with infinitive) to think contemptuously that..., to presume
      • Herodotus, Histories 1.66
      • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.83
2. (with accusative, only in Ionian writers) to fix one's thoughts upon, aim at
   • Herodotus, Histories 1.59
   • Antiphanes Comicus, Archon 1.5
3. to come to one's senses
   • Hippocrates, On the Sacred Disease 15
   • Hippocrates, On the Nature of the Woman 3

Inflection

Derived terms

• καταφρονητής ‎(kataphronētḗs)

References

• καταφρονέω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• καταφρονέω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «καταφρονέω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «καταφρονέω» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G2706”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979