cunctans

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Latin

Etymology

Present participle of cūnctor.

Participle

cūnctāns (genitive cūnctantis, adverb cūnctanter); third-declension one-termination participle

  1. delaying
  2. hesitating, tarrying, lingering
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.133-134:
      Rēgīnam thalamō cūnctantem ad līmina prīmī
      Poenōrum exspectant, .
      The queen lingers in her bedchamber; at the palace doors, the first-men of Carthage await her, .
      (Poenorum = Karthaginis.)
  3. dawdling

Declension

Third-declension participle.

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative cūnctāns cūnctantēs cūnctantia
genitive cūnctantis cūnctantium
dative cūnctantī cūnctantibus
accusative cūnctantem cūnctāns cūnctantēs
cūnctantīs 		cūnctantia
ablative cūnctante
cūnctantī1 		cūnctantibus
vocative cūnctāns cūnctantēs cūnctantia

1When used purely as an adjective.

References

  • “cunctans”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “cunctans”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cunctans in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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