ambit

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See also:àmbit

English

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WOTD – 2 February 2021

Etymology

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From LateMiddle Englishambyte,borrowed fromLatinambitus(“circuit; circumference, perimeter; area within a perimeter; ground around a building; cycle, orbit, revolution”)(compareLate Latinambitus(“neighbourhood; wall of a castle, monastery, or town; cloister; parish boundary”)), fromambīre+-tus(suffixformingverbal nounsfromverbs).[1]Ambīreis thepresentactiveinfinitiveofambiō(“to go around, to skirt; to encircle, surround”),fromambi-(“prefixmeaning ‘both, on both sides’”)(possibly ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*h₂ent-(“front; face; forehead”)) +eō(“to go, move”)(ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*h₁ey-(“to go”)). The English word is adoubletofambitus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ambit(pluralambits)

  1. (by extension)
    1. Theextentofactions,thoughts,or themeaningofwords,etc.
    2. Theareaorsphereofcontrolandinfluenceof something.
      • 1913,Gilbert Parker,“‘The Alpine Fellow’”, inThe Judgment House[…],uniform edition, Toronto, Ont.: The Copp, Clark Co.,→OCLC,book IV,pages412–413:
        He had invited Destiny to sweep him up in her reaping, by placing himself in theambitof her scythe; but the sharp reaping-hook had passed him by.
  2. (archaic)Theboundaryaround a building, town,region,etc.
  3. (archaic,rare)Thecircumferenceof somethingcircular;also, anarc;acircuit,anorbit.
  4. (obsolete)Chiefly in thepluralformambits:theopen spacesurroundingabuilding,town,etc.; thegroundsorprecinctsof aplace.
    Synonym:(of a house)curtilage

Derived terms

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Translations

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References

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  1. ^“ambit,n.”,inOED OnlinePaid subscription required⁠,Oxford, Oxfordshire:Oxford University Press,March 2020;“ambit,n.”,inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.

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Anagrams

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Latin

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Verb

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ambit

  1. third-personsingularpresentactiveindicativeofambiō

Polish

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Etymology

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Learned borrowingfromLatinambītus.[1][2]First attested in 1577.[3]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ambitminan

  1. (architecture)ambulatory
    Synonym:obejście
  2. (architecture)retrochoir
    ambitkatedralnego―cathedralretrochoir
    ambitkatedry―a cathedral'sretrochoir
  3. (archaic)ambition
    Synonym:ambicja
  4. (archaic,architecture)cloister
    Synonyms:ganek,krużganek

Declension

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Declension ofambit
singular plural
nominative ambit ambity
genitive ambitu ambitów
dative ambitowi ambitom
accusative ambit ambity
instrumental ambitem ambitami
locative ambicie ambitach
vocative ambicie ambity

Derived terms

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adjective
adverb
verbs
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adjectives
adverbs
nouns

References

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  1. ^Mirosław Bańko,Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “ambit”,inWielki słownik wyrazów obcych,→ISBN
  2. ^Witold Doroszewski,editor (1958–1969), “ambit”,inSłownik języka polskiego(in Polish), Warszawa:PWN
  3. ^Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “ambit”,inSłownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku[A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]

Further reading

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