# dubito
## Ido
### Etymology

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### Noun

dubito (plural dubiti)
* doubt

#### Related terms

* dubitar
* dubitebla
* dubitema
* dubitinda

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdu.bi.to/
* Rhymes: -ubito
* Hyphenation: dù‧bi‧to

### Etymology 1

Deverbal from dubitare (“to doubt”) +‎ -o. Cognate with Piedmontese dùbit.

#### Noun

dubito m (plural dubiti) (archaic, literary)
* doubt
    Synonym: dubbio

##### Related terms

* dubbio
* dubitabile
* dubitanza
* dubitare
* dubitativo
* dubitatore
* dubitazione
* dubitoso

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

dubito
* first-person singular present indicative of dubitare

## Latin
### Etymology

Somewhat uncertain, but likely as a frequentative of dubō (attested only as a gloss by Paulus/Festus), denominative of *dubos (“in doubt”, adj.), from Proto-Indo-European *dwi- (“two-”) + *bʰuH- (“to be”). See dubius for details.
For the relation to "two" cf. Ancient Greek δισσός (dissós, “twofold; doubtful”), δοιάζω (doiázō, “to be in two minds”) and German Zweifel (“doubt”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈdu.bi.toː/, [ˈd̪ʊbɪt̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈdu.bi.to/, [ˈd̪uːbit̪o]

### Verb

dubitō (present infinitive dubitāre, perfect active dubitāvī, supine dubitātum); first conjugation
* to waver (in opinion), be uncertain, doubt, question, be in doubt
    Synonyms: errō, vagor, fluitō, pendeō
    Antonym: cōnstō
* to waver (in coming to a decision), hesitate, delay
    Synonyms: retardō, tardō, moror, cūnctor, prōtrahō, trahō, differō
    Antonyms: ruō, accurrō, currō, festīnō, prōvolō, properō, corripiō, affluō, mātūrō
* to reflect upon, ponder, consider, deliberate
    Synonyms: reflectō, perpendō, ponderō, dēlīberō, putō, pendō, cōnsīderō, reputō, cōnsulō, replicō, cōnsultō, circumspiciō, videō, trahō, versō

#### Conjugation

$^1$At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

#### Derived terms

* addubitō
* dubitābilis
* dubitanter
* dubitātim
* dubitātiō
* dubitātīvus
* dubitātor
* dubitātus
* indubitō

#### Descendants

* Asturian: duldar
* Catalan: dubtar
* Dalmatian: dubitur, dobitur
* → Italian: dubitare
* Occitan: dobtar, ⇒ dobtanza
* Old French: doter, douter, doubter, duter
** French: douter
** → Middle English: douten
*** English: doubt
** ⇒ Old French: doutance
*** → English: doubtance (obsolete)
*** French: doutance (obsolete)
** ⇒ Old French: redoter
*** Middle French: redoubter
**** French: redouter
* Old Galician-Portuguese: dovidar
** Galician: dubidar
** Portuguese: duvidar
* >? Piedmontese: dubité
* → Romanian: dubita
* Old Spanish: dubdar
** Spanish: dudar

### References

* De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “dubius”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 180
* Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “dubius”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 375
* ↑ “dǒuten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Further reading

* “dubito”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “dubito”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* dubito in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.