different between cunctator vs cunctatory

English

Etymology

Latin, literally "delayer"; applied as a surname to Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus.

Noun

cunctator (plural cunctators)

1. One who delays or lingers.

Translations

Latin

Noun

c?nct?tor m (genitive c?nct?t?ris); third declension

1. A delayer; a dawdler, slowpoke

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Verb

c?nct?tor

1. second-person singular future active imperative of c?nctor
2. third-person singular future active imperative of c?nctor

References

• 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 Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

English

Etymology

From Latin cunctor (“delay, impede”).

Adjective

cunctatory

1. delaying; procrastinating
   • 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library, Penguin Books (1988), page 252

     Indeed, for several weeks the time rushed by, and it was really only in the final month, when freedom grew palpably close, that every minute took on a crabwise, cunctatory manner, came near to stalling altogether.

Derived terms

• cunctation