desprezar

Meaning

to despise (regard with contempt or scorn)
to ignore

Frequency

Hyphenated as

des‧pre‧zar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/des.pɾeˈza(ʁ)/

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese despreçar, des- + preçar, from preciar (“to price, to hold dear”), from Latin pretium (“price”), from Proto-Indo-European *preti- (“back”); or possibly through a Vulgar Latin *dispretiāre. Compare English depreciate, also Spanish despreciar, Italian disprezzare.