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.

Derived terms

• cunctatorship

Translations

One who delays or lingers

Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ку̀нкта̄тор f Roman: kùnktātor (sh) f

Latin

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From cūnctor (“to delay; to hesitate”) +‎ -tor.

Noun

cūnctātor m (genitive cūnctātōris); third declension

1. delayer; dawdler, slowpoke

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cūnctātor	cūnctātōrēs
genitive	cūnctātōris	cūnctātōrum
dative	cūnctātōrī	cūnctātōribus
accusative	cūnctātōrem	cūnctātōrēs
ablative	cūnctātōre	cūnctātōribus
vocative	cūnctātor	cūnctātōrēs

Etymology 2

Verb

cūnctātor

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

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 cūnctator.

Noun

cunctator m (plural cunctatori)

1. a delayer

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	cunctator	cunctatorul		cunctatori	cunctatorii
genitive-dative	cunctator	cunctatorului		cunctatori	cunctatorilor
vocative	cunctatorule			cunctatorilor

References

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