tergiversator

== English == === Etymology === From Latin tergiversator (“avoider”). Equivalent to tergiversate +‎ -or. === Noun === tergiversator (plural tergiversators) One who tergiversates. == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [tɛr.ɡɪ.wɛrˈsaː.tɔr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ter.d͡ʒi.verˈsaː.tor] === Etymology 1 === See tergiversor ==== Verb ==== tergiversātor second/third-person singular future active imperative of tergiversor === Etymology 2 === From tergiversor (“to delay, to evade”) +‎ -tor (“-er: forming agent nouns”) ==== Noun ==== tergiversātor m (genitive tergiversātōris, feminine tergiversātrīx); third declension (Late Latin) avoider, delayer, postponer, decliner ===== Declension ===== Third-declension noun. ===== Synonyms ===== bovīnātor ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== English: tergiversator === References === “tergiversator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "tergiversator", 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) “tergiversator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.