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
Liber XXXVI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...omnibus copiis eundum censebant terrendosque metu, si cunctarentur. Cum circa hanc fere consultationem disceptatio omnis uerteretur, Hannibal nominatim..."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..."
