tergiversator
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin tergiversator (“avoider”). Equivalent to tergiversate + -or.
Noun edit
tergiversator (plural tergiversators)
- One who tergiversates.
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ter.ɡi.u̯erˈsaː.tor/, [t̪ɛrɡiu̯ɛrˈs̠äːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ter.d͡ʒi.verˈsa.tor/, [t̪erd͡ʒiverˈsäːt̪or]
Etymology 1 edit
See tergiversor
Verb edit
tergiversātor
Etymology 2 edit
From tergiversor (“to delay, to evade”) + -tor (“-er: forming agent nouns”)
Noun edit
tergiversātor m (genitive tergiversātōris, feminine tergiversātrīx); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | tergiversātor | tergiversātōrēs |
Genitive | tergiversātōris | tergiversātōrum |
Dative | tergiversātōrī | tergiversātōribus |
Accusative | tergiversātōrem | tergiversātōrēs |
Ablative | tergiversātōre | tergiversātōribus |
Vocative | tergiversātor | tergiversātōrēs |
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- English: tergiversator
References edit
- “tergiversator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tergiversator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- tergiversator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.