ambulance
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French ambulance, which replaced French (hôpital) ambulant (“walking, shifting (hospital)”) via the suffix -ance, from Latin ambulō (“I walk, I go about”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈæm.bjə.ləns/
- (AAVE, also Southern American English) IPA(key): /ˈæm.bjəˌlæns/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: am‧bu‧lance
Noun edit
ambulance (plural ambulances)
- An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital. [1854[1]]
- (military) A mobile field hospital. [1798[1]]
- (obsolete, US) A prairie wagon. [Late 19c.[1]]
Derived terms edit
- air ambulance
- amberlamps
- ambulance-chase
- ambulance chaser
- ambulance chasing
- ambulance cover
- ambulanceman
- ambulanceperson
- ambulanceperson
- ambulance train
- ambulancewoman
- ambulette
- ambulette
- cabulance
- cabulance
- call an ambulance
- field ambulance
- motor-ambulance
- nonambulance
- nonambulance
- police ambulance
- vanbulance
- vanbulance
- wahmbulance
- wahmbulance
- wambulance
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
Translations edit
emergency vehicle
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Verb edit
ambulance (third-person singular simple present ambulances, present participle ambulancing, simple past and past participle ambulanced)
- (transitive) To transport by ambulance.
- 1918, Western Surgical Association: Transactions, volume 27, page 66:
- Ambulancing patients with acute obstruction over cobble and rails should not be tolerated; better render the necessary service where the patient is found.
Further reading edit
- “ambulance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “ambulance”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
References edit
Czech edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ambulance f
- ambulance
- Synonym: sanitka
- hospital ward or department that offers outpatient care
Declension edit
Declension of ambulance (soft feminine)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | ambulance | ambulance |
| genitive | ambulance | ambulancí |
| dative | ambulanci | ambulancím |
| accusative | ambulanci | ambulance |
| vocative | ambulance | ambulance |
| locative | ambulanci | ambulancích |
| instrumental | ambulancí | ambulancemi |
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
Danish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French ambulance.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ambulance c (singular definite ambulancen, plural indefinite ambulancer)
Declension edit
Declension of ambulance
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | ambulance | ambulancen | ambulancer | ambulancerne |
| genitive | ambulances | ambulancens | ambulancers | ambulancernes |
References edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French ambulance.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ambulance f (plural ambulances)
- ambulance
- 1975, Anke de Vries, Het geheim van Mories Besjoer, Lemniscaat, section 59:
- Ze beschrijven uitvoerig hoe Maurice te hulp schoot, toen hij gegil hoorde, hoe hij iemand had zien wegvluchten uit de kamer en dat hij het was geweest, die een ambulance had gebeld.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1979, Rubberen Robbie, "De ambulance", Zuipen (CD).
- Twee, drie, weken geleden kwam de ambulance / Bij onze buurman hier net om de hoek
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Synonyms edit
Descendants edit
French edit
Etymology edit
From Latin ambulāns, present participle of ambulō (“to walk, to go about”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ambulance f (plural ambulances)
Descendants edit
- → Dutch: ambulance (see there for further descendants)
- → English: ambulance
- → Portuguese: ambulância
- → Romanian: ambulanță
- → Turkish: ambulans
Further reading edit
- “ambulance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English ambulance and French ambulance.
Noun edit
ambulance f (plural ambulances)