ambit
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation,General American)IPA(key):/ˈæmbɪt/
Audio(Received Pronunciation): (file) - Rhymes:-æmbɪt
- Hyphenation:am‧bit
Noun
[edit]ambit(pluralambits)
- (by extension)
- Theextentofactions,thoughts,or themeaningofwords,etc.
- 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.
- (archaic)Theboundaryaround a building, town,region,etc.
- (archaic,rare)Thecircumferenceof somethingcircular;also, anarc;acircuit,anorbit.
- (obsolete)Chiefly in thepluralformambits:theopen spacesurroundingabuilding,town,etc.; thegroundsorprecinctsof aplace.
- Synonym:(of a house)curtilage
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References
[edit]- ^“ambit,n.”,inOED Online,Oxford, Oxfordshire:Oxford University Press,March 2020;“ambit,n.”,inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.
Further reading
[edit]- ambit (disambiguation)on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
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[edit]ambit
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowingfromLatinambītus.[1][2]First attested in 1577.[3]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ambitminan
- (architecture)ambulatory
- Synonym:obejście
- (architecture)retrochoir
- ambitkatedralnego―cathedralretrochoir
- ambitkatedry―a cathedral'sretrochoir
- (archaic)ambition
- Synonym:ambicja
- (archaic,architecture)cloister
Declension
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^Mirosław Bańko,Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “ambit”,inWielki słownik wyrazów obcych,→ISBN
- ^Witold Doroszewski,editor (1958–1969), “ambit”,inSłownik języka polskiego(in Polish), Warszawa:PWN
- ^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
[edit]- ambitinWielki słownik języka polskiego,Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- ambitin Polish dictionaries at PWN
- “NU”,inElektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku[Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], BR-K
- Samuel Bogumił Linde(1807–1814) “ambit”,inSłownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz(1861) “ambit”,inSłownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz,A. Kryński,W. Niedźwiedzki,editors (1900), “ambit”,inSłownik języka polskiego(in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page30
- ambitin Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
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