Ambrosius
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See also: ambrosius
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from German Ambrosius.
Proper noun[edit]
Ambrosius (plural Ambrosiuses)
- A surname from German.
Statistics[edit]
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Ambrosius is the 39486th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 557 individuals. Ambrosius is most common among White (95.15%) individuals.
Further reading[edit]
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Ambrosius”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 33.
Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀμβρόσιος (ambrósios, “immortal, divine”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /amˈbro.si.us/, [ämˈbrɔs̠iʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /amˈbro.si.us/, [ämˈbrɔːs̬ius]
Proper noun[edit]
Ambrosius m sg (genitive Ambrosiī or Ambrosī, feminine Ambrosia); second declension
- A masculine nomen equivalent to Ambrose, famously held by:
- Aurelius Ambrosius (AD circa 340–397), a celebrated Church Doctor and Father, consular prefect of Aemilia and Liguria from AD 372 and bishop of Milan AD 374–397
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Ambrosius |
Genitive | Ambrosiī Ambrosī1 |
Dative | Ambrosiō |
Accusative | Ambrosium |
Ablative | Ambrosiō |
Vocative | Ambrosī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Proto-Brythonic: *Ėmrös
- Welsh: Emrys
- → Czech: Ambrož
- → English: Ambrose
- ⇒ English: Bross
- Italian: Ambrogio
- → Portuguese: Ambrósio (learned)
- → Vietnamese: Ambrôsiô
- → Slovak: Ambróz
- Sicilian: Ammroci, Ammrosi, Brosi
References[edit]
- “Ambrŏsĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- 2 Ambrŏsĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.: “112/2”
Further reading[edit]
- Ambrosius on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia la
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