Ambrosius

See also: ambrosius

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Ambrosius.

Proper noun

Ambrosius (plural Ambrosiuses)

1. A surname from German.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Ambrosius is the 39486^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 557 individuals. Ambrosius is most common among White (95.15%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Ambrosius”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 33.

Latin

Alternative forms

• Ambr., Ambros. (abbreviations)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀμβρόσιος (ambrósios, “immortal, divine”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /amˈbro.si.us/, [ämˈbrɔs̠iʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /amˈbro.si.us/, [ämˈbrɔːs̬ius]

Proper noun

Ambrosius m sg (genitive Ambrosiī or Ambrosī, feminine Ambrosia); second declension

1. A masculine nomen equivalent to Ambrose, famously held by:
   1. Aurelius Ambrosius (AD circa 340–397), a celebrated Church Doctor and Father, consular prefect of Aemilia and Liguria from AD 372 and bishop of Milan AD 374–397

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Ambrosius
Genitive	Ambrosiī Ambrosī1
Dative	Ambrosiō
Accusative	Ambrosium
Ablative	Ambrosiō
Vocative	Ambrosī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• Ambrosiānus

Descendants

• → Proto-Brythonic: *Ėmrös
  • Welsh: Emrys
• → Czech: Ambrož
• → English: Ambrose
  • ⇒ English: Bross
• Italian: Ambrogio
• → Portuguese: Ambrósio (learned)
  • → Vietnamese: Ambrôsiô
• → Slovak: Ambróz
• Sicilian: Ammroci, Ammrosi, Brosi

References

• “Ambrŏsĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 2 Ambrŏsĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “112/2”

Further reading

• Ambrosius on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la