amb

See also: amb.

English

Etymology

From ambit, from Latin.

Noun

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.

Translations

outline of a spore or pollen grain

• Portuguese: amb m

Anagrams

• -mab, ABM, B. M. A., BMA, Bam, MAb, MBA, Mab, Mba, bam, mAb, mab

Catalan

Alternative forms

• ab (archaic)

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio

  (file)

  • • Homophone: em
• (Occidental)
  • (before a vowel) IPA^(key): /amb/, /an/, /en/
  • (before a consonant) IPA^(key): /am/, /an/, /en/
    • Homophone: 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.

Preposition

amb

1. with

   Antonym: sense

Derived terms

• amb tot

 

References

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

Further reading

• “amb” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “amb”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “amb” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “amb” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Estonian

Etymology

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

Noun

amb (genitive ammu, partitive ambu)

1. crossbow

Occitan

Alternative forms

• ab (Guardiol)
• dab (Gascon)
• damb (Gascon, Aranese)
• ambé (Provençal)
• embé (Provençal, Niçard)
• emb (limousin)
• ambo (vivaro-alpine)
• 'mbo (east vivaro-alpine)

Etymology

From Old Occitan ab, from Latin apud.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Preposition

amb

1. with

References

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

Portuguese

Noun

amb m (plural ambs)

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