cunctatio

cunctatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Latin cūnctor
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin cūnctātiō

    From cūnctor (“to delay; to hesitate”) + -tiō (noun-forming suffix).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    cūnctātiō f (genitive cūnctātiōnis); third declension

    1. delay; hesitation
      Synonyms: mora, prōlātiō, prōditiō
    2. inactivity
    3. dawdling

    Declension

    Third-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative cūnctātiō cūnctātiōnēs
    genitive cūnctātiōnis cūnctātiōnum
    dative cūnctātiōnī cūnctātiōnibus
    accusative cūnctātiōnem cūnctātiōnēs
    ablative cūnctātiōne cūnctātiōnibus
    vocative cūnctātiō cūnctātiōnēs

    Descendants

    • → English: cunctation

    References

    • “cunctatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “cunctatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “cunctatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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