ambo
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Late Latin ambō, from Ancient Greek ἄμβων (ámbōn).
Noun
ambo (plural ambos or ambones)
- A raised platform in an early Christian church, as well as in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic churches.
- 1918, Leo Tolstoy, translated by Louise & Aylmer Maude, Anna Karenina, Oxford, published 1998, page 438:
- ‘It will get better somehow,’ he thought, and went to the ambo. On going up the steps and turning to the right he saw the priest.
- 1997, John Julius Norwich, A Short History of Byzantium, Penguin, published 1998, page 150:
- the Emperor arrived and instead of moving directly to his seat climbed to the top level of the ambo, the great three-decker pulpit of polychrome marble.
- (Roman Catholicism) A stationary podium used for readings and homilies.
- 2010, General Instruction of the Roman Missal[1], United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, published 2011, section #309:
- The dignity of the Word of God requires that in the church there be a suitable place from which it may be proclaimed and toward which the attention of the faithful naturally turns during the Liturgy of the Word. It is appropriate that generally this place be a stationary ambo and not simply a movable lectern.
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Shortening of ambulance + -o.
Noun
ambo (plural ambos)
- (informal) An ambulance driver.
- (informal) An ambulance.
- 2004 Dec. 19, David Simon & al., "Mission Accomplished", The Wire, Season 3, Episode 12, 00:31:54:
- Rawls: I don't want the fuckin' reporters seeing any ambos. Shit.
- 2004 Dec. 19, David Simon & al., "Mission Accomplished", The Wire, Season 3, Episode 12, 00:31:54:
Translations
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Anagrams
Asi
Noun
ambò
Buginese
Noun
ambo
Indonesian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
ambo (plural ambo-ambo, first-person possessive amboku, second-person possessive ambomu, third-person possessive ambonya)
- Alternative spelling of hamba
Etymology 2
Learned borrowing from Late Latin ambō, from Ancient Greek ἄμβων (ámbōn).
Noun
ambo (plural ambo-ambo, first-person possessive amboku, second-person possessive ambomu, third-person possessive ambonya)
- (Catholicism) ambo: stationary podium used for readings and homilies.
- Hypernym: mimbar
Further reading
- “ambo” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Italian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Determiner
ambo (usually invariable, rare masculine plural ambi, rare feminine plural ambe)
- (literary) both
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIII”, in Inferno [Hell][2], lines 58–61; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][3], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- Io son colui che tenni ambo le chiavi
del cor di Federigo, e che le volsi,
serrando e diserrando, sì soavi,
che dal secreto suo quasi ogn’ uom tolsi- I am the one who kept both keys to Frederick's heart, and turned them, locking and unlocking, so softly, that I kept almost everyone from his secrets
Etymology 2
Noun use of the above determiner.
Noun
ambo m (plural ambi)
- double (in various games)
Further reading
- ambo1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- ambo2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Javanese
Romanization
ambo
- Romanization of ꦲꦩ꧀ꦧꦺꦴ
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈam.boː/, [ˈämboː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈam.bo/, [ˈämbo]
Etymology 1
From Proto-Italic *amβō, cognate to Ancient Greek ἄμφω (ámphō, “both”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂n̥tbʰóh₁ (“both”),[1] proposed to be from *h₂n̥t-bʰi (“from both sides”), one case form in -bʰi from the root noun *h₂ent- (“front, front side”), whence ante.
Related to ambi-, from Latin *amβi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi (“round about, around”), cognate to Ancient Greek ἀμφί (amphí, “around”), Gaulish ambi-, Proto-Germanic *umbi, Sanskrit उभौ (ubháu, “both, the two”), अभि (abhí, “towards, over, upon”).
Determiner
ambō m (feminine ambae, neuter ambō)
Declension
Irregular adjective, plural only.
Number | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | ambō | ambae | ambō |
Genitive | ambōrum | ambārum | ambōrum |
Dative | ambōbus | ambābus | ambōbus |
Accusative | ambōs ambō |
ambās | ambō |
Ablative | ambōbus | ambābus | ambōbus |
Vocative | ambō | ambae | ambō |
(The irregular declension is a vestige of Latin's dual, defunct in the extant literature.)
Descendants
See also
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄμβων (ámbōn).
Noun
ambō m
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | ambō | ambōnēs |
Genitive | ambōnis | ambōnum |
Dative | ambōnī | ambōnibus |
Accusative | ambōnem | ambōnēs |
Ablative | ambōne | ambōnibus |
Vocative | ambō | ambōnēs |
Descendants
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “ambō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 37
Further reading
- “ambo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ambo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ambo”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
- ambo 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)
- ambo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
Minangkabau
Etymology
From earlier form hambo, from Sanskrit हम्भाय (hambhāya, “low”), compare to Sanskrit हंबतारा (haṃbatārā, “good man”).
Pronunciation
Pronoun
ambo
- first person singular; I
Synonyms
Occitan
Alternative forms
Adverb
ambo (Vivaro-alpine)
- (accompaniment) with
Old Javanese
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit हम्भाय (hambhāya, “low”), compare to Sanskrit हंबतारा (haṃbatārā, “good man”). Attested in the Old Javanese prose of Tantri Kaḍiri.
Noun
ambo
- escort (who walks beside a horse, etc.)
Related terms
Descendants
Further reading
- "ambo" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.
Pali
Alternative forms
Noun
ambo
- nominative singular of amba (“mango tree”)
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
ambo m (plural ambos)
Related terms
Further reading
- “ambo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/æmbəʊ
- Rhymes:English/æmbəʊ/2 syllables
- English terms borrowed from Late Latin
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- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
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- en:Roman Catholicism
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- en:Vehicles
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- Indonesian 2-syllable words
- Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Indonesian/bo
- Rhymes:Indonesian/bo/2 syllables
- Indonesian lemmas
- Indonesian nouns
- Indonesian terms borrowed from Late Latin
- Indonesian learned borrowings from Late Latin
- Indonesian terms derived from Late Latin
- Indonesian terms derived from Ancient Greek
- id:Catholicism
- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ambo
- Rhymes:Italian/ambo/2 syllables
- Italian terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Italian terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Italian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Italian terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
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- Javanese non-lemma forms
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- Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic
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- Latin nouns
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- Medieval Latin
- Minangkabau terms derived from Sanskrit
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- Minangkabau lemmas
- Minangkabau pronouns
- Occitan lemmas
- Occitan prepositions
- Old Javanese terms borrowed from Sanskrit
- Old Javanese terms derived from Sanskrit
- Old Javanese lemmas
- Old Javanese nouns
- Pali non-lemma forms
- Pali noun forms
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Spanish/ambo
- Rhymes:Spanish/ambo/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Argentinian Spanish
- Chilean Spanish
- Uruguayan Spanish
- es:Clothing