The story
- Ecclesiastical Latin · borrowed fromcontemptus mundī
- English todaycontemptus mundi
Unadapted borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin contemptus mundī (literally “contempt for the world”), as used in works such as Bernard of Cluny’s De contemptu mundi. First attested in the mid-19th century in English.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.