Cavil (verb)
kav-il
To raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily.
Cavil was first recorded in 1540–50 and is from the Latin cavillārī “to jeer, scoff, quibble.”
Cavillārī is a derivative of cavilla “jesting, banter.”
Example sentences
“Instead of picking the music himself, he made her pick just to cavil about the choices.”
Tripartite (adj) triy-part-iyt Divided into or consisting of three parts. Agreed by three parties. 1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin tripartītus divided into three parts, equivalent to tri- tri- +…
