cunctatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱenk-der.

Proto-Italic *konkitos

Latindenom.?

Latin cūnctor

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kuːŋkˈtaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kuŋkˈtat.t͡si.o]

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.