dubitatio

Latin

Etymology

From dubitō (“I waver”, “I doubt”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /du.biˈtaː.ti.oː/, [d̪ʊbɪˈt̪äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /du.biˈtat.t͡si.o/, [d̪ubiˈt̪ät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

dubitātiō f (genitive dubitātiōnis); third declension

1. doubt, uncertainty
2. wavering, hesitation
3. questioning

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dubitātiō	dubitātiōnēs
genitive	dubitātiōnis	dubitātiōnum
dative	dubitātiōnī	dubitātiōnibus
accusative	dubitātiōnem	dubitātiōnēs
ablative	dubitātiōne	dubitātiōnibus
vocative	dubitātiō	dubitātiōnēs

Descendants

• French: dubitation
  • English: dubitation
• Italian: dubitazione

References

• “dubitatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dubitatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dubitatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a thing which is rather (very) dubious: quod aliquam (magnam) dubitationem habet (Leg. Agr. 1. 4. 11)
    
  • a doubt arises in my mind: dubitatio mihi affertur, inicitur
    
  • to relieve a person of his doubts: dubitationem alicui tollere
    
  • without any hesitation; without the least scruple: sine ulla dubitatione