tergiversatio

== Latin == === Etymology === From tergiversor (“tergiversate, turn one's back, avoid”) +‎ -tiō (“-tion: forming abstract nouns”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [tɛr.ɡɪ.wɛrˈsaː.ti.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ter.d͡ʒi.verˈsat.t͡si.o] === Noun === tergiversātiō f (genitive tergiversātiōnis); third declension subterfuge, tergiversation ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== tergiversor ==== Descendants ==== English: tergiversation French: tergiversation === References === “tergiversatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “tergiversatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "tergiversatio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “tergiversatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “tergiversatio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers