vacillatio

Latin

Etymology

From vacillō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

vacillātiō f (genitive vacillātiōnis); third declension

1. rocking to and fro

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vacillātiō	vacillātiōnēs
Genitive	vacillātiōnis	vacillātiōnum
Dative	vacillātiōnī	vacillātiōnibus
Accusative	vacillātiōnem	vacillātiōnēs
Ablative	vacillātiōne	vacillātiōnibus
Vocative	vacillātiō	vacillātiōnēs

Descendants

• English: vacillation
• Italian: vacillazione
• Portuguese: vacilação
• Spanish: vacilación

References

• “vacillatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vacillatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.