cunctatio

Latin

Etymology

From cūnctor (“I delay, hesitate”) +‎ -tiō (noun forming suffix).

Noun

cūnctātiō f (genitive cūnctātiōnis); third declension

1. delay, hesitation

   Synonyms: mora, prōlātiō, prōditiō

2. inactivity
3. dawdling

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	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.