contumace

from Latin contumacia ('pride, haughtiness, arrogance, conceit, pride') 'stubborn resistance, obstinacy, spirit of revolt' 'contumacy, state of the person who has evaded justice' related to contumax ('proud, arrogant, haughty, superb, proud') and formed on the prefix con- and tumere ('to be swollen, to be inflated'), root from which 'tumor, tumefy, tumescence, tumulus', etc. are derived.