See also: amb.

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From ambit, from Latin.

NounEdit

amb (plural ambs)

  1. (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

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)
    • (before a vowel) IPA(key): /əmb/
    • (before a consonant) IPA(key): /əm/
  • (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

  1. with
    Antonym: sense

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • Pei, Mario A. 1948. Ab and the survival of the Latin genitive in Old Italian. Italica 25. 104–106.

Further readingEdit

EstonianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Finno-Permic *ampɜ-. Cognate to Finnish ampua (to shoot).

NounEdit

amb (genitive ammu, partitive ambu)

  1. crossbow

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

PrepositionEdit

amb

  1. with

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)

  1. (palynology) amb (outline of a spore or pollen grain)