dubito
See also: dubitò
Ido
Etymology
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Noun
dubito (plural dubiti)
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Italian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Back-formation from dubitare (“to doubt”).
Noun
dubito m (plural dubiti) (archaic, literary)
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Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
dubito
Latin
Etymology
Three hypotheses:
- From *duhibitō, frequentative of *duhibeo, from *duohabeo, from duo + habeō.[1]
- From dubius (“indecisive, undecided, hesitating”).[2]
- Frequentative of *dubō, from the adjective *dubos/dubus. [3]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈdu.bi.toː/, [ˈd̪ʊbɪt̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈdu.bi.to/, [ˈd̪uːbit̪o]
Verb
dubitō (present infinitive dubitāre, perfect active dubitāvī, supine dubitātum); first conjugation
- I waver (in opinion), am uncertain, doubt, question, am in doubt
- I waver (in coming to a decision), hesitate, delay
- I reflect upon, ponder, consider, deliberate
Conjugation
1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “dubito”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dubito”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dubito in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ “dubito”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ^ “dubitare” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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