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Latin
Etymology
From tergiversor (“tergiversate, turn one's back, avoid”) + -tiō (“-tion: forming abstract nouns”).
Pronunciation
Noun
tergiversātiō f (genitive tergiversātiōnis); third declension
- subterfuge, tergiversation
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “tergiversatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tergiversatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tergiversatio 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)
- tergiversatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “tergiversatio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers