Translation
to hesitate
Word origin
From Latin haesitare, to stick fast or stammer, a repeated form of haerere ('to cling, to stick'). Someone hesitating is stuck, which is also why English adhere and hesitate share a root.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- haesitare
- English cognates
- hesitate, adhere, adhesive
Examples
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He hesitated before answering.
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Do not hesitate to ask if you do not understand.
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She hesitated at the door for a long moment.
is the pause before acting; is the doubt that may cause it. The verb takes a bare infinitive after it, , with no preposition in between, and the noun hezito gives you hezito, the phrase for doing something without a moment's pause.
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