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Latin
Etymology
Frequentative of pigror (“I am slow”, “I hesitate”): pigror + -itor.
Pronunciation
Verb
pigritor (present infinitive pigritārī, perfect active pigritātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
- (Late Latin, intransitive) to be slow, sluggish, slothful, or tardy; to tarry
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References
- “pī̆grĭtor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- PIGRITARE in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- pĭgrĭtor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,180/2.
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “pigritari et pigritare”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 797/1