The corpus record — Latin

vacillatio

vacillatio · f

a rocking to and fro

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Where it lives

De Pudicitia 1 · 0.74/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

văcillātĭo — Lewis & Short

văcillātĭo, ōnis, f.vacillo,

I a rocking to and fro, see-saw, a wavering, reeling motion: indecora in dextrum ac laevum latus, Quint. 11, 3, 128: foeda, Suet. Claud. 21 fin.

In the wild

vacillatio Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 11.3.128
vacillatio Tertullian, De Pudicitia 10

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.