cunctamen

Latin

Etymology

From cūnctor (“to delay; to hesitate”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kuːŋkˈtaː.mɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kuŋkˈtaː.men]

Noun

cūnctāmen n (genitive cūnctāminis); third declension (Medieval Latin)

1. delaying; hesitating
2. delay; hesitation

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	cūnctāmen	cūnctāmina
genitive	cūnctāminis	cūnctāminum
dative	cūnctāminī	cūnctāminibus
accusative	cūnctāmen	cūnctāmina
ablative	cūnctāmine	cūnctāminibus
vocative	cūnctāmen	cūnctāmina

References

• “cunctamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “cunctamen”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC