tergiversator

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

tergiversator (plural tergiversators)

1. One who tergiversates.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [tɛr.ɡɪ.wɛrˈsaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t̪er.d͡ʒi.verˈsaː.t̪or]

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.