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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cūnctātor (“delayer”); applied as a surname to Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus.
Noun
cunctator (plural cunctators)
- One who delays or lingers.
Derived terms
Translations
One who delays or lingers
Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From cūnctor + -tor.
Noun
cūnctātor m (genitive cūnctātōris); third declension
- delayer; dawdler, slowpoke
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
cūnctātor
- second/third-person singular future active imperative of cūnctor
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 cunctator.
Noun
cunctator m (plural cunctatori)
- a delayer
Declension
References
- cunctator in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN