ambo
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Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Late Latin ambō, from Ancient Greek ἄμβων (ámbōn).
Noun edit
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.
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Etymology 2 edit
Shortening of ambulance + -o.
Noun edit
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:
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Asi edit
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ambò
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ambo
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Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
ambo (plural ambo-ambo, first-person possessive amboku, second-person possessive ambomu, third-person possessive ambonya)
- Alternative spelling of hamba
Etymology 2 edit
Learned borrowing from Late Latin ambō, from Ancient Greek ἄμβων (ámbōn).
Noun edit
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 edit
- “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.
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Determiner edit
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 edit
Noun use of the above determiner.
Noun edit
ambo m (plural ambi)
- double (in various games)
Further reading edit
- ambo1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- ambo2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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Romanization edit
ambo
- Romanization of ꦲꦩ꧀ꦧꦺꦴ
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈam.boː/, [ˈämboː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈam.bo/, [ˈämbo]
Etymology 1 edit
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 edit
ambō m (feminine ambae, neuter ambō)
Declension edit
Irregular adjective, plural only.
Number | Plural | ||
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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.)
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Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄμβων (ámbōn).
Noun edit
ambō m
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | ambō | ambōnēs |
Genitive | ambōnis | ambōnum |
Dative | ambōnī | ambōnibus |
Accusative | ambōnem | ambōnēs |
Ablative | ambōne | ambōnibus |
Vocative | ambō | ambōnēs |
Descendants edit
References edit
- ^ 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 edit
- “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 edit
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Pronoun edit
ambo
- first person singular; I
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ambo (Vivaro-alpine)
- (accompaniment) with
Old Javanese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Sanskrit हम्भाय (hambhāya, “low”), compare to Sanskrit हंबतारा (haṃbatārā, “good man”). Attested in the Old Javanese prose of Tantri Kaḍiri.
Noun edit
ambo
- escort (who walks beside a horse, etc.)
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Further reading edit
- "ambo" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.
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ambo
- nominative singular of amba (“mango tree”)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
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Noun edit
ambo m (plural ambos)
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Further reading edit
- “ambo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014