contemptrix (-temt-), īcis, f. [contemptor], she who puts small value upon a thing, a despiser, contemner (rare; not in Cic.): mea, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 2: superūm propago, Ov. M. 1, 161.—II. Of inanimate and abstract subjects: contemptrix frigorum eruca
, Plin. 19, 8, 44, 154; 37, 4, 15, 59: fortitudo contemptrix timendorum est
, Sen. Ep. 88, 29: turba periculi
, Sil. 17, 411.