titubate

Latin titubatus, past participle of titubare (“to stagger, totter”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɪtjʊbeɪt/

titubate (third-person singular simple present titubates, present participle titubating, simple past and past participle titubated)

1. (obsolete) To stagger
2. (obsolete) To rock or roll, like a curved body on a plane.
3. To stutter, stammer.
   • 1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford:

     They must let us alone here, we govern ourselves, we are by way of being totally autonomous. (The plethora of t’s there made his tongue titubate, but it was a brave show.)

• titubation

• “titubate”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

titubate

1. inflection of titubare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

titubate f pl

1. feminine plural of titubato

• buttiate

titubāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of titubō

titubate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of titubar combined with te