pigritor
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Frequentative of pigror (“I am slow”, “I hesitate”): pigror + -itor.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpi.ɡri.tor/, [ˈpɪɡrɪt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpi.ɡri.tor/, [ˈpiːɡrit̪or]
Verb edit
pigritor (present infinitive pigritārī, perfect active pigritātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
- (Late Latin, intransitive) to be slow, sluggish, slothful, or tardy; to tarry
Conjugation edit
Synonyms edit
- moror (Classical)
Descendants edit
References edit
- “pī̆grĭtor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- PIGRITARE 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)
- pĭgrĭtor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,180/2.
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “pigritari et pigritare”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 797/1