vacillo

See also: vacillò and vacil·lo

Italian

Verb

vacillo

first-person singular present indicative of vacillare

Anagrams

Villaco, cavillo, cavillò

Latin

Etymology

Unknown.^[1]

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯aˈkil.loː/, [u̯äˈkɪlːʲoː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vaˈt͡ʃil.lo/, [väˈt͡ʃilːo]

Verb

vacillō (present infinitive vacillāre, perfect active vacillāvī, supine vacillātum); first conjugation

Conjugation

Conjugation of vacillō (first conjugation)

indicative		singular			plural
indicative		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	vacillō	vacillās	vacillat	vacillāmus	vacillātis	vacillant
	imperfect	vacillābam	vacillābās	vacillābat	vacillābāmus	vacillābātis	vacillābant
	future	vacillābō	vacillābis	vacillābit	vacillābimus	vacillābitis	vacillābunt
	perfect	vacillāvī	vacillāvistī	vacillāvit	vacillāvimus	vacillāvistis	vacillāvērunt, vacillāvēre
	pluperfect	vacillāveram	vacillāverās	vacillāverat	vacillāverāmus	vacillāverātis	vacillāverant
	future perfect	vacillāverō	vacillāveris	vacillāverit	vacillāverimus	vacillāveritis	vacillāverint
passive	present	vacillor	vacillāris, vacillāre	vacillātur	vacillāmur	vacillāminī	vacillantur
	imperfect	vacillābar	vacillābāris, vacillābāre	vacillābātur	vacillābāmur	vacillābāminī	vacillābantur
	future	vacillābor	vacillāberis, vacillābere	vacillābitur	vacillābimur	vacillābiminī	vacillābuntur
	perfect	vacillātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	vacillātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	vacillātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
subjunctive		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	vacillem	vacillēs	vacillet	vacillēmus	vacillētis	vacillent
imperfect	vacillārem	vacillārēs	vacillāret	vacillārēmus	vacillārētis	vacillārent
perfect	vacillāverim	vacillāverīs	vacillāverit	vacillāverīmus	vacillāverītis	vacillāverint
pluperfect	vacillāvissem	vacillāvissēs	vacillāvisset	vacillāvissēmus	vacillāvissētis	vacillāvissent
passive	present	vaciller	vacillēris, vacillēre	vacillētur	vacillēmur	vacillēminī	vacillentur
imperfect	vacillārer	vacillārēris, vacillārēre	vacillārētur	vacillārēmur	vacillārēminī	vacillārentur
perfect	vacillātus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect	vacillātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
imperative		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	vacillā	—	—	vacillāte	—
active	future	—	vacillātō	vacillātō	—	vacillātōte	vacillantō
passive	present	—	vacillāre	—	—	vacillāminī	—
passive	future	—	vacillātor	vacillātor	—	—	vacillantor
non-finite forms		active			passive
non-finite forms		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		vacillāre	vacillāvisse	vacillātūrum esse	vacillārī	vacillātum esse	vacillātum īrī
participles		vacillāns	—	vacillātūrus	—	vacillātus	vacillandus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		vacillandī	vacillandō	vacillandum	vacillandō	vacillātum	vacillātū

Descendants

Catalan: vacil·lar
English: vacillate
French: vaciller
Galician: vacilar
Italian: vacillare
Spanish: vacilar
Portuguese: vacilar

References

“vacillo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“vacillo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
vacillo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to have a good memory: memoriā (multum) valere (opp. memoriā vacillare)

^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vacillō, -āre”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 649

[1] De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vacillō, -āre”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 649

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