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Latin
Etymology
From cūnctor (“to delay”) + -men (“-ment, -ing, -tion”, noun-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
cūnctāmen n (genitive cūnctāminis); third declension (Medieval Latin)
- a delaying, hesitating
- delay, hesitation
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
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