tergiversor
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom tergum (“back, hindpart”) + versō (“I turn”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ter.ɡiˈu̯er.sor/, [t̪ɛrɡiˈu̯ɛrs̠ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ter.d͡ʒiˈver.sor/, [t̪erd͡ʒiˈvɛrsor]
Verb
edittergiversor (present infinitive tergiversārī, perfect active tergiversātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
- (absolute) to seek an evasion, to tergiversate
Conjugation
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editDescendants
edit- Catalan: tergiversar
- English: tergiversate
- French: tergiverser
- Galician: terxiversar
- Italian: tergiversare
- Piedmontese: tergiversé
- Portuguese: tergiversar
- Romanian: tergiversa
- Spanish: tergiversar
References
edit- “tergiversor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tergiversor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tergiversor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.