vacillatio

Latin

Etymology

From vacillō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

vacillātiō f (genitive vacillātiōnis); third declension

1. rocking to and fro

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	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.