different between titubate vs titubant

English

Etymology

Latin titubatus, past participle of titubare (“to stagger, totter”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?tj?be?t/

Verb

titubate (third-person singular simple present titubates, present participle titubating, simple past and past participle titubated)

1. (obsolete) To stagger
2. (obsolete) To rock or roll, like a curved body on a plane.
3. To stutter, stammer.

Related terms

• titubation

Translations

Further reading

• “titubate”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Italian

Verb

titubate

1. second-person plural present indicative of titubare
2. second-person plural imperative of titubare
3. feminine plural of titubato

Anagrams

• buttiate

Latin

Verb

titub?te

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

English

Etymology

From French titubant, present participle of tituber, from Latin titub?re (“falter”), present active infinitive of titub?.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?t?t?b?nt/, /?t?t??b?nt/

Adjective

titubant (comparative more titubant, superlative most titubant)

1. stumbling, staggering; with the movement of one who is tipsy
   • 1896, Robert Louis Stevenson, Macaire, act i, scene 2 (stage directions)

     To these, by the door L. C., the CURATE and the NOTARY, arm in arm; the latter owl-like and titubant

   • 1928, Acta Psychiatrica et Neurologica, volume 3, page 65

     His walk had become titubant.

   • 1948, Karl Pearson, Treasury of Human Inheritance: Nervous Diseases and Muscular Dystrophies, page 253

     her feet showed the typical Friedreich's deformity; her speech was drawling and monotonous; her gait was staggering and titubant

Synonyms

• (stumbling, staggering): lurching, reeling, staggering, stumbling, unsteady, vacillating

Related terms

• titubate
• titubation

Translations

Catalan

Verb

titubant

1. present participle of titubar

French

Verb

titubant

1. present participle of tituber
2. (preceded by en) gerund of tituber

Latin

Verb

titubant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of titub?