cunctator

Borrowed from Latin cūnctātor (“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]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kuŋkˈtaː.tor]

From cūnctor (“to delay; to hesitate”) +‎ -tor.

cūnctātor m (genitive cūnctātōris); third declension

1. delayer; dawdler, slowpoke

Third-declension noun.

cūnctātor

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of cūnctor
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of cūnctō

• “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 cūnctator.

cunctator m (plural cunctatori)

1. a delayer

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