cunctarentur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cunctor, cunctari, cunctatus sum:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
delay, impede, hold up; hesitate, tarry, linger; be slow to act; dawdle; doubt;
pl. imperf. subj. 3rd - Entry →cuncto, cunctare, cunctavi, cunctatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
delay, impede, hold up; hesitate, tarry, linger; be slow to act; dawdle; doubt;
pl. imperf. pass. subj. 3rd
Examples
- T
Liber XXXVI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...omnibus copiis eundum censebant terrendosque metu, si cunctarentur. Cum circa hanc fere consultationem disceptatio omnis uerteretur, Hannibal nominatim..." - P
Liber XI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...auditum et languescere ira, redire amor ac, si cunctarentur, propinqua nox et uxorii cubiculi memoria timebantur, prorumpit Narcissus..."