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ambitus

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin ambitus (“circuit, ostentation”). Doublet of ambit.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈæmbɪtəs/
  • Hyphenation: am‧bi‧tus

Noun

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ambitus (plural ambituses or ambiti)

  1. (music) The range of a melody, especially those of ecclesiastical chants.
  2. (botany, zoology) The exterior edge or border of a thing, such as a leaf or shell.
  3. (historical, Roman antiquity) A canvassing for votes.

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin ambītus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ambitus (plural ambitus-ambitus)

  1. (music) ambitus

Further reading

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Latin

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Etymology 1

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From ambiō +‎ -tus (forming action nouns).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ambitus m (genitive ambitūs); fourth declension

  1. a going around, walking around
  2. circuit
  3. orbit, revolution, cycle
  4. periphrasis, circumlocution
  5. show, ostentation, vanity
  6. an unlawful striving for posts of honor, canvassing, especially by bribery; (by extension) bribery
  7. environment
Declension
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Fourth-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative ambitus ambitūs
genitive ambitūs ambituum
dative ambituī ambitibus
accusative ambitum ambitūs
ablative ambitū ambitibus
vocative ambitus ambitūs
Descendants
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  • Catalan: àmbit
  • → Middle English: ambyte
  • Italian: ambito
  • Portuguese: âmbito
  • Spanish: ámbito
  • Venetan: anbito

Etymology 2

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Perfect passive participle of ambiō.

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Participle

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ambītus (feminine ambīta, neuter ambītum); first/second-declension participle

  1. skirted
  2. encircled, surrounded
  3. campaigned, canvassed
  4. sought, striven for
Declension
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First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative ambītus ambīta ambītum ambītī ambītae ambīta
genitive ambītī ambītae ambītī ambītōrum ambītārum ambītōrum
dative ambītō ambītae ambītō ambītīs
accusative ambītum ambītam ambītum ambītōs ambītās ambīta
ablative ambītō ambītā ambītō ambītīs
vocative ambīte ambīta ambītum ambītī ambītae ambīta

Further reading

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  • “ambītus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ambītus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ambītus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “ambītus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “ambitus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • "ambitus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the period: ambitus, circuitus, comprehensio, continuatio (verborum, orationis), also simply periodus
    • to accuse some one of illegal canvassing: accusare aliquem ambitus, de ambitu
  • “ambitus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “ambitus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin ambītus.[1][2]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /amˈbi.tus/
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  • Audio 2:(file)
  • Rhymes: -itus
  • Syllabification: am‧bi‧tus

Noun

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ambitus m inan (indeclinable)[3]

  1. (music) ambitus (range of a melody, especially those of ecclesiastical chants)
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References

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  1. ^ Mirosław Bańko; Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021), “ambitus”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  2. ^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “ambitus”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
  3. ^ Woliński, Marcin; Saloni, Zygmunt; Wołosz, Robert; Gruszczyński, Włodzimierz; Skowrońska, Danuta; Bronk, Zbigniew (2020), “ambitus”, in Słownik gramatyczny języka polskiego [Grammatical Dictionary of Polish]‎[1], 4. online edition, Warszawa

Further reading

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  • “ambitus”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[3] (in Polish)
  • ambitus in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French ambitus.

Noun

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ambitus n (plural ambitusuri)

  1. ambitus

Declension

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative ambitus ambitusul ambitusuri ambitusurile
genitive-dative ambitus ambitusului ambitusuri ambitusurilor
vocative ambitusule ambitusurilor
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