ambos
See also: Ambos
English edit
Noun edit
ambos
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Galician edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese ambos, from Latin ambō, ambōs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi (“round about, around”).
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
ambos m pl (feminine ambas)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “ambos” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “ambos” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “ambos” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “ambos” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “ambos” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Latin edit
Noun edit
ambōs
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese ambos, from Latin ambōs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi (“round about, around”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: am‧bos
Determiner edit
ambos m pl (feminine plural ambas)
Pronoun edit
ambos m pl (feminine plural ambas)
Sardinian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin ambō, ambōs.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
ambos m pl (feminine plural ambas)
Numeral edit
ambos
Pronoun edit
ambos
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Latin ambōs m pl. Old Spanish consistently had amos, representing the inherited form, while ambos existed in neighbouring Old Leonese. Later, Latin influence helped ambos spread into Spanish as well, where it displaced the form without /b/.
Adjective edit
ambos m pl (feminine plural ambas)
- both
- 2009 January 10, C. De Carlos, “Kirchner comienza el proceso de expropiación de Aerolíneas a Marsans”, in ABC.es[1]:
- Las negociaciones entre el Gobierno y la empresa se rompieron a mediados de diciembre, después de que el Ejecutivo argentino rechazara cumplir un acuerdo, suscrito en julio, que le obligaba a buscar un tasador independiente de la compañía si ambas partes no coincidían, como así fue, en sus respectivas auditorías.
- Negotiations between the government and the company broke down in mid-December, after the Argentine executive rejected an agreement signed in July, which obliged him to seek an independent company if both sides differed, as they did, in their respective audits.
Pronoun edit
ambos
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
ambos m pl
Further reading edit
- “ambos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “abos”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 238