amb
See also: amb.
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
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.
Translations edit
outline of a spore or pollen grain
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Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited 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.
Pronunciation edit
(Central)
- (before a vowel) IPA(key): /amb/, /an/, /en/
- (before a consonant) IPA(key): /am/, /an/, /en/
- Homophone: en
- Note: the standard pronunciations are /amb/ and /am/. The pronunciation /en/ is typically used in the Valencian Community and parts of Catalonia, the pronunciation /an/ is used in some southern parts of the Valencian Community.
Preposition edit
amb
Derived terms edit
References edit
- Pei, Mario A. 1948. Ab and the survival of the Latin genitive in Old Italian. Italica 25. 104–106.
Further reading edit
- “amb” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “amb”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “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.
Estonian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Finno-Permic *ampɜ-. Cognate to Finnish ampua (“to shoot”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
amb (genitive ammu, partitive ambu)
Declension edit
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Further reading edit
- “amb”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- “amb”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
- amb in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
Occitan edit
Alternative forms edit
- ab (Guardiol)
- dab (Gascon)
- damb (Gascon, Aranese)
- ambé (Provençal)
- embé (Provençal, Niçard)
- emb (limousin)
- ambo (vivaro-alpine)
- 'mbo (east vivaro-alpine)
Etymology edit
From Old Occitan ab, from Latin apud.
Pronunciation edit
- (before a vowel) IPA(key): /amb/, /am/ [ãm-]
- (before a consonant) IPA(key): /ˈam.e/ [ˈãm.e]
Audio (file)
Preposition edit
amb
References edit
- Pei, Mario A. 1948. Ab and the survival of the Latin genitive in Old Italian. Italica 25. 104–106.
Portuguese edit
Noun edit
amb m (plural ambs)
- (palynology) amb (outline of a spore or pollen grain)