amb
See also: amb.
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
amb (plural ambs)
- (palynology) The outline of a spore or pollen grain, as seen in a polar view.
- 1970, Robert Max Kosanke, editor, Symposium on Palynology of the Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary:
- This genus is distinguished from Duplopollis Krutzsch, 1959a, and Cupanieidites Cookson and Pike, 1954, by being syncolpate rather than syncolporate and by the islands at the angles of the amb.
TranslationsEdit
outline of a spore or pollen grain
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AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- ab (archaic)
EtymologyEdit
From Old Catalan ab (Compare Old Occitan ab), from Latin apud. The addition of an -m- is very old, but it was not reflected in spelling until Fabra's orthography in the twentieth century.
PronunciationEdit
- (Oriental)
Audio (file) - (Occidental)
- (before a vowel) IPA(key): /amb/, /an/, /en/
- (before a consonant) IPA(key): /am/, /an/, /en/
- Notes: the standard pronunciations are /amb/ and /am/. The pronunciation /en/ is typically used in the Valencian Country and parts of Catalonia, the pronunciation /an/ is used in some southern parts of the Valencian Country.
PrepositionEdit
amb
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- Pei, Mario A. 1948. Ab and the survival of the Latin genitive in Old Italian. Italica 25. 104–106.
Further readingEdit
- “amb” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “amb”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “amb” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “amb” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
EstonianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Finno-Permic *ampɜ-. Cognate to Finnish ampua (“to shoot”).
NounEdit
OccitanEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- ab (Guardiol)
- dab (Gascon)
- damb (Gascon, Aranese)
- ambé (Provençal)
- embé (Provençal, Niçard)
- emb (limousin)
- ambo (vivaro-alpine)
- 'mbo (east vivaro-alpine)
EtymologyEdit
From Old Occitan ab, from Latin apud.
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
PrepositionEdit
amb
ReferencesEdit
- Pei, Mario A. 1948. Ab and the survival of the Latin genitive in Old Italian. Italica 25. 104–106.
PortugueseEdit
NounEdit
amb m (plural ambs)
- (palynology) amb (outline of a spore or pollen grain)