vacillatio

Latin

Etymology

From vacillō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

vacillātiō f (genitive vacillātiōnis); third declension

rocking to and fro

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vacillātiō	vacillātiōnēs
Genitive	vacillātiōnis	vacillātiōnum
Dative	vacillātiōnī	vacillātiōnibus
Accusative	vacillātiōnem	vacillātiōnēs
Ablative	vacillātiōne	vacillātiōnibus
Vocative	vacillātiō	vacillātiōnēs

Descendants

English: vacillation
Italian: vacillazione
Portuguese: vacilação
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

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