презирать
Russian
verb
Definitions
- to despise, to hold in contempt
- to scorn, to disdain
Etymology
Derived from Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian прѣзьрѣти, зьрѭ (see, glance) prefix from Russian зреть (watch, look at, see) inherited from Proto-Slavic *zьrěti (ripen, look, look at, see).
Origin
Proto-Slavic
*zьrěti
Gloss
ripen, look, look at, see
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
見
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- воззреть Russian
- дозреть Russian
- зоркий Russian
- зрелище Russian
- зрение Russian
- зреть Russian
- зримый Russian
- зритель Russian
- зрительный Russian
- зрячий Russian
- лицезреть Russian
- обозреть Russian
- презреть Russian
- призреть Russian
- прозреть Russian
- созреть Russian
- узреть Russian
- умозрительный Russian
- *ǵerh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵʰreh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *zьrěti Proto-Slavic
- zřít Czech
- zreti Serbo-Croatian
- zrijeti Serbo-Croatian
- зрети Serbo-Croatian
- зријети Serbo-Croatian
- зра Bulgarian
- ѕирка Macedonian
- зьрѣти Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- зьрѭ Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- прѣзьрѣти Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- зазьрѣти Old East Slavic
- зьрѣти Old East Slavic
- źrzeć Old Polish