different between titubation vs titubant

English

Noun

titubation (countable and uncountable, plural titubations)

1. The act of stumbling, rocking, or rolling; a reeling.

References

• titubation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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?