cunctator

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cūnctātor (“delayer”); applied as a surname to Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus.

Noun

cunctator (plural cunctators)

1. One who delays or lingers.

Translations

One who delays or lingers

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ку̀нкта̄тор f

  Roman: kùnktātor (sh) f

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kuːnkˈtaː.tor/, [kuːŋkˈt̪äːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kunkˈta.tor/, [kuŋkˈt̪äːt̪or]

Etymology 1

From cūnctor +‎ -tor.

Noun

cūnctātor m (genitive cūnctātōris); third declension

1. delayer; dawdler, slowpoke

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cūnctātor	cūnctātōrēs
Genitive	cūnctātōris	cūnctātōrum
Dative	cūnctātōrī	cūnctātōribus
Accusative	cūnctātōrem	cūnctātōrēs
Ablative	cūnctātōre	cūnctātōribus
Vocative	cūnctātor	cūnctātōrēs

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cūnctātor

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of cūnctor

References

• “cunctator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cunctator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cunctator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cunctator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cunctator”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cunctator.

Noun

cunctator m (plural cunctatori)

1. a delayer

Declension

Declension of cunctator

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) cunctator	cunctatorul	(niște) cunctatori	cunctatorii
genitive/dative	(unui) cunctator	cunctatorului	(unor) cunctatori	cunctatorilor
vocative	cunctatorule		cunctatorilor

References

• cunctator in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN