misprision

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌmɪsˈpɹɪʒn̩/
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• General-American: /ˌmɪsˈpɹɪʒ(ə)n/
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• rhymes with -ɪʒən
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• CMU ARPABET: M IH0 S P R IH1 ZH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Late Middle English misprision, mesprision (“criminal offence or illegal action, especially one committed by a public official”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman misprision, mesprision, mesprison (“criminal offence or illegal action; error, mistake, specifically an error by a court”) [and other forms] (whence Late Latin mesprisio, misprisio), and Old French mesprison, from mespris (“contempt, disdain”) (modern French mépris) + -ion (suffix indicating a condition or state). Mespris is the past participle of mesprendre (“to misunderstand”), from mes- (prefix meaning ‘badly; wrongly’) + prendre (“to take”) (from Latin prēndere, the present active infinitive of prēndō, a variant of prehendō (“to seize, take”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ghed- (“to find; to seize, take; to hold”)).

From misprize (“to despise or hold in contempt; to undervalue”) + -ion (suffix indicating a condition or state), probably influenced by misprision (etymology 1). Misprize is derived from Middle English mesprise, mespryse, from Anglo-Norman mespriser, Middle French mespriser, and Old French mesprisier, mesproisier (“to disdain, scorn; to despise, hate”) (modern French mépriser), from mes- (prefix meaning ‘badly; wrongly’) + priser, prisier (“to appraise, value”) (from Late Latin pretiāre, the present active infinitive of pretiō (“to consider valuable, esteem, prize, value”), Medieval Latin pretiō (“to appraise, assess, value”), from Latin pretium (“cost, price; value, worth”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“before; in front; first”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)).

7 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Mandarin: 瀆職 /渎职 (dúzhí) — criminal neglect or wrongful execution of duty, especially by a public official; a specific instance of this
• Polish: zaniedbanie — criminal neglect or wrongful execution of duty, especially by a public official; a specific instance of this
• Russian: укрыва́тельство (ukryvátelʹstvo) — less serious form of felony or treason; the crime of (intentionally) failing to give information about a felony or treason that one knows about; an instance of this
• French: méprise — misinterpretation or misunderstanding; an instance of this — see also misinterpretation, mistake, misunderstanding
• Russian: оши́бка (ošíbka) — misinterpretation or misunderstanding; an instance of this — see also misinterpretation, mistake, misunderstanding
• Russian: недооце́нка (nedoocénka) — misinterpretation or misunderstanding; an instance of this — see also misinterpretation, mistake, misunderstanding
• Russian: оши́бочная оце́нка (ošíbočnaja océnka) — misinterpretation or misunderstanding; an instance of this — see also misinterpretation, mistake, misunderstanding