tergiversator

From Latin tergiversator (“avoider”). Equivalent to tergiversate +‎ -or.

tergiversator (plural tergiversators)

1. One who tergiversates.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ter.ɡi.u̯erˈsaː.tor/, [t̪ɛrɡiu̯ɛrˈs̠äːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ter.d͡ʒi.verˈsa.tor/, [t̪erd͡ʒiverˈsäːt̪or]

See tergiversor

tergiversātor

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of tergiversor

From tergiversor (“to delay, to evade”) +‎ -tor (“-er: forming agent nouns”)

tergiversātor m (genitive tergiversātōris, feminine tergiversātrīx); third declension

1. (Late Latin) avoider, delayer, postponer, decliner

Third-declension noun.

• bovīnātor

• English: tergiversator

• “tergiversator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tergiversator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• tergiversator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.