cunctans
Latin
Etymology
Present participle of cū̆nctor.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkuːŋk.tãːs], [ˈkʊŋk.tãːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkuŋk.t̪ans]
Participle
cū̆nctāns (genitive cū̆nctantis, adverb cū̆nctanter); third-declension one-termination participle
- delaying
- hesitating, tarrying, lingering
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.133-134:
- Rēgīnam thalamō cūnctantem ad līmina prīmī
Poenōrum exspectant, [...].- The queen [yet] lingers in her bedchamber; at the palace doors, the first-men of Carthage await her, [...].
(Poenorum = Karthaginis.)
- The queen [yet] lingers in her bedchamber; at the palace doors, the first-men of Carthage await her, [...].
- Rēgīnam thalamō cūnctantem ad līmina prīmī
- dawdling
Declension
Third-declension participle.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
| nominative | cū̆nctāns | cū̆nctantēs | cū̆nctantia | ||
| genitive | cū̆nctantis | cū̆nctantium | |||
| dative | cū̆nctantī | cū̆nctantibus | |||
| accusative | cū̆nctantem | cū̆nctāns | cū̆nctantēs cū̆nctantīs |
cū̆nctantia | |
| ablative | cū̆nctante cū̆nctantī1 |
cū̆nctantibus | |||
| vocative | cū̆nctāns | cū̆nctantēs | cū̆nctantia | ||
1When used purely as an adjective.
References
- “cunctans”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cunctans”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cunctans in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.