cunctator

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin , literally "delayer"; applied as a surname to Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus.

Noun

cunctator (plural cunctators)

1. One who delays or lingers.

Translations

One who delays or lingers

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ку̀нкта̄тор f

  Roman: kùnktātor (sh) f

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Latin

Noun

cūnctātor m (genitive cūnctātōris); third declension

1. A delayer; a dawdler, slowpoke

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cūnctātor	cūnctātōrēs
Genitive	cūnctātōris	cūnctātōrum
Dative	cūnctātōrī	cūnctātōribus
Accusative	cūnctātōrem	cūnctātōrēs
Ablative	cūnctātōre	cūnctātōribus
Vocative	cūnctātor	cūnctātōrēs

Verb

(deprecated template usage) cūnctātor

1. second-person singular future active imperative of cūnctor
2. 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