vacillatio

Latin

Etymology

From vacillō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

vacillātiō f (genitive vacillātiōnis); third declension

rocking to and fro

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vacillātiō	vacillātiōnēs
Genitive	vacillātiōnis	vacillātiōnum
Dative	vacillātiōnī	vacillātiōnibus
Accusative	vacillātiōnem	vacillātiōnēs
Ablative	vacillātiōne	vacillātiōnibus
Vocative	vacillātiō	vacillātiōnēs

Descendants

Catalan: vacil·lació
English: vacillation
French: vacillation
Galician: vacilación
Italian: vacillazione
Portuguese: vacilação
Romanian: vacilație
Spanish: vacilación

References

“vacillatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
vacillatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

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