tergiversator

English

Etymology

From Latin tergiversator (“avoider”). Equivalent to tergiversate +‎ -or.

Noun

tergiversator (plural tergiversators)

1. One who tergiversates.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ter.ɡi.u̯erˈsaː.tor/, [t̪ɛrɡiu̯ɛrˈs̠äːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ter.d͡ʒi.verˈsa.tor/, [t̪erd͡ʒiverˈsäːt̪or]

Etymology 1

See tergiversor

Verb

tergiversātor

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of tergiversor

Etymology 2

From tergiversor (“to delay, to evade”) +‎ -tor (“-er: forming agent nouns”)

Noun

tergiversātor m (genitive tergiversātōris, feminine tergiversātrīx); third declension

1. (Late Latin) avoider, delayer, postponer, decliner

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	tergiversātor	tergiversātōrēs
genitive	tergiversātōris	tergiversātōrum
dative	tergiversātōrī	tergiversātōribus
accusative	tergiversātōrem	tergiversātōrēs
ablative	tergiversātōre	tergiversātōribus
vocative	tergiversātor	tergiversātōrēs

Synonyms

• bovīnātor

Derived terms

• tergiversātōrius

 

Descendants

• English: tergiversator

References

• “tergiversator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tergiversator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• tergiversator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.