tergiversātor — Lewis & Short
tergiversātor, ōris, m.id.,
I one who delays, declines, o hangs back, a boggler, laggard (post-class.), Gell. 11, 7, 9; Arn. 7, 247; cf. Isid. 10, 271.
The corpus record — Latin
tergiversator
tergiversator · m
one who delays
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Where it lives
- Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- tergiversatorem Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 11.7.9
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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