dubitatio

From dubitō (“I waver”, “I doubt”) +‎ -tiō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [dʊ.bɪˈtaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪u.biˈt̪at̪.t̪͡s̪i.o]

dubitātiō f (genitive dubitātiōnis); third declension

1. doubt, uncertainty
2. wavering, hesitation
3. questioning

Third-declension noun.

• French: dubitation
  • English: dubitation
• Italian: dubitazione

• “dubitatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dubitatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dubitatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a thing which is rather (very) dubious: quod aliquam (magnam) dubitationem habet (Leg. Agr. 1. 4. 11)
    
  • a doubt arises in my mind: dubitatio mihi affertur, inicitur
    
  • to relieve a person of his doubts: dubitationem alicui tollere
    
  • without any hesitation; without the least scruple: sine ulla dubitatione