cunctator

Borrowed from Latin cū̆nctātor (“delayer”); applied as a surname to Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus.

cunctator (plural cunctators)

1. One who delays or lingers.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kuːŋkˈtaː.tɔr], [kʊŋkˈtaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kuŋkˈt̪aː.t̪or]

From cū̆nctor +‎ -tor.

cū̆nctātor m (genitive cū̆nctātōris); third declension

1. delayer; dawdler, slowpoke

Third-declension noun.

cū̆nctātor

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of cū̆nctor
2. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of cū̆nctō

• “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

Borrowed from Latin cū̆nctator.

cunctator m (plural cunctatori)

1. a delayer

• cunctator in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN