different between tergiversate vs tergite

English

Etymology

From Latin tergiversor (“turn one's back, make excuses”); from tergum (“the back”) + vers?, frequentative of vert? (“turn”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t??d??v?se?t/
• (US) enPR: t?r-j?v'?r-s?t, IPA^(key): /t??d??v?se?t/

Verb

tergiversate (third-person singular simple present tergiversates, present participle tergiversating, simple past and past participle tergiversated)

1. (intransitive) To evade, to equivocate using subterfuge; to obfuscate in a deliberate manner.
2. (intransitive) To change sides or affiliation; to apostatize.
3. (intransitive, rare) To flee by turning one's back.

Synonyms

• (to evade, obfuscate): prevaricate, beat around the bush
• (to change sides): desert

Derived terms

• tergiversation

Translations

Italian

Verb

tergiversate

1. second-person plural present indicative of tergiversare
2. second-person plural imperative of tergiversare
3. feminine plural of tergiversato

Anagrams

• gravitereste

Latin

Participle

tergivers?te

1. vocative masculine singular of tergivers?tus

English

Etymology

From Latin tergum (“back(side)”), +? -ite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??(?)d??a?t/

Noun

tergite (plural tergites)

1. (anatomy) The dorsal portion of an articulate animal's arthromere or somite.

Derived terms

• acrotergite
• hemitergite
• mediotergite
• microtergite
• pretergite
• syntergite

Related terms

• tergal
• tergiversate
• tergum

Latin

Verb

tergite

1. second-person plural present active imperative of terg?