cunctationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin cūnctātiō (“a delaying, tarrying”), from cūnctor (“linger, hesitate”).

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA^(key): /kʌŋkˈteɪʃən/

名詞

cunctation (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 cunctations)

1. (obsolete) Delay, hesitation, procrastination.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Folio Society, published 2007, page 428:

     The swiftest animal conjoined with a heavy body implies that common moral, festina lente; and that celerity should always be contempered with cunctation.

同意語

• dilation, hold-up; see also Thesaurus:delay

派生語

• cunctatory