titubo
See also: titubò
Catalan
Italian
Latin
Etymology
From a reduplication of Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp-, from *(s)tew- (“to push, hit”)[1]. Compare Latin stupeō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈti.tu.boː/, [ˈt̪ɪt̪ʊboː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈti.tu.bo/, [ˈt̪iːt̪ubo]
Verb
titubō (present infinitive titubāre, perfect active titubāvī, supine titubātum); first conjugation
- to stagger, totter, reel
- 43 BCE – c. 17 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.539:
- cum redeunt, titubant et sunt spectācula volgī
- When they return, they stagger, and they're a [drunken] spectacle for onlookers
(The ancient Romans celebrated the festival of Anna Perenna on the Ides of March.)
- When they return, they stagger, and they're a [drunken] spectacle for onlookers
- cum redeunt, titubant et sunt spectācula volgī
- to hesitate, falter, waver
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References
- “titubo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “titubo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- titubo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954), “titubo”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2, 3rd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 686
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