cunctatio Latin · revision 31252

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *ḱonk-(e)ie-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kuːŋkˈtaː.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [kuŋkˈtat.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cūnctātiō''' ''f'' (genitive cūnctātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled with ''cont-'',^(Lewis & Short 1879) and a papyrus has ''conctātiōnis''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|cūnctor|t=to delay, hesitate]] with the suffix [[m|la|-tiō]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan derives the verb from [[itc-pro|*konkito-|t=hanging]] and [[ine-pro|*ḱonk-(e)ie-|t=to hang]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[hit|kānk-|t=to hang, weigh]], [[sa|शङ्कते|tr=śáṅkate|t=fears]], [[got|𐌷𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌽|tr=hāhan|t=to leave in uncertainty]] and [[ang|hōn|t=to hang]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler gives Cicero as its first author,^(Köbler 2010) who says in the ''Laelius'' “let zeal be always there, let hesitation be absent”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is hesitation, delay, tardiness or inactivity, and with a genitive or ''dē'' the delaying of something, as Cicero's ''sine cunctātiōne'', without hesitation, and the slowness by which good men lose their leisure and standing.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis and Short find it used in a good and more often in a bad sense, of the subjective hesitation, while ''mora'' is the objective delay;^(Lewis & Short 1879) Tacitus opposes it to rashness and calls it nearer to steadfastness.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Köbler finds it in the Bible and in the Burgundian and Visigothic law codes.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero: ''studium semper adsit, cunctātiō absit''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of the Sabini's hesitation.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus opposes it to rashness.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|hesitation|alt=Hesitation]], delaying, [[m|en|tardiness]]; inactivity;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''sine cunctātiōne'', without hesitation.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cūnctor]]

+ * [[cūnctātor]]

+ * [[mora]]

+ * [[tarditās]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}