ambo

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈæm.bəʊ/
• Rhymes: -æm.bəʊ

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin ambō, from Ancient Greek ἄμβων (ámbōn).

Noun

ambo (plural ambos or ambones)

1. A raised platform in an early Christian church, as well as in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic churches.
   • 1918, ‘It will get better somehow,’ he thought, and went to the ambo. On going up the steps and turning to the right he saw the priest. — Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Louise & Aylmer Maude (Oxford 1998, page 438)
   • 1997, the Emperor arrived and instead of moving directly to his seat climbed to the top level of the ambo, the great three-decker pulpit of polychrome marble. — John Julius Norwich, A Short History of Byzantium (Penguin 1998, page 150)
2. (Roman Catholicism) A stationary podium used for readings and homilies.
   • 2010, The dignity of the Word of God requires that in the church there be a suitable place from which it may be proclaimed and toward which the attention of the faithful naturally turns during the Liturgy of the Word. It is appropriate that generally this place be a stationary ambo and not simply a movable lectern. (General Instruction of the Roman Missal, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops 2011, #309)

Related terms

• ambon, lectern, podium, pulpit

Translations

raised platform

• Bulgarian: амвон (bg) (amvon)
• Catalan: ambó m
• Finnish: ambo (fi), lukupulpetti
• French: ambon (fr) m

• Italian: ambone (it)
• Portuguese: ambão m
• Russian: амво́н (ru) m (amvón)
• Spanish: ambón m

stationary podium

• Finnish: saarnastuoli (fi), ambo (fi)
• German: Ambo (de) m

• Vietnamese: giảng đài

Etymology 2

Shortening of ambulance +‎ -o.

Noun

ambo (plural ambos)

1. (informal) An ambulance driver.
2. (informal) An ambulance.

Translations

informal: ambulance driver

• Bulgarian: шофьор на линейка (šofjor na linejka)
• Finnish: sirrakuski

• French: ambulancier (fr) m

informal: ambulance

• Finnish: sirra

Anagrams

• MOAB, MOBA, Mabo, Moab, boma, moAb

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Noun

ambò

1. mouse; rat

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Buginese

Noun

ambo

1. father

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈam.bo/
• Rhymes: -ambo
• Hyphenation: àm‧bo

Etymology 1

From Latin ambō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi (“round about, around”).

Adjective

ambo (usually invariable, rare masculine plural ambi, rare feminine plural ambe)

1. (literary) both

   Synonyms: ambedue (literary), amendue (literary, obsolete), entrambi

   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell] (paperback), 12th edition, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XIII, lines 58–63, page 196:

     Io son colui che tenni ambo le chiavi ¶ del cor di Federigo, e che le volsi, ¶ serrando e diserrando, sì soavi, ¶ che dal secreto suo quasi ogn’ uom tolsi; ¶ fede portai al glorïoso offizio, ¶ tanto ch’i’ ne perde’ li sonni e’ polsi.

     I am the one who both keys had in keeping of Frederick's heart, and turned them to and fro so softly in unlocking and in locking, that from his secrets most men I withheld; fidelity I bore the glorious office so great, I lost thereby my sleep and pulses.

Etymology 2

Noun use of the above adjective.

Noun

ambo m (plural ambi)

1. double (in various games)

Anagrams

• boma

References

• ambo¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• ambo² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi (“round about, around”), proposed by some from *h₂n̥t-bʰi (“from both sides”), one case form in -bʰi from the root noun *h₂ent- (“front, front side”), whence ante. Cognates include Ancient Greek ἀμφί (amphí, “both, facing”) or ἀμφώ (amphṓ, “both, facing”), Gaulish ambi-, Proto-Germanic *umbi, Sanskrit उभौ (ubháu, “both, the two”), अभि (abhí, “towards, over, upon”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈam.boː/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈam.bo/, [ˈam.bɔ]

Determiner

ambō m (feminine ambae, neuter ambō)

1. both (of objects occurring in pairs)
2. the two (when the duality of the objects is assumed to be known)
   • Vergilius, Aeneis; Book VI, line 540

     Hic locus est, partes ubi se via findit in ambas.

     Here is the place, where the way divides itself into two parts.

Declension

Numeral, plural only.

Number	Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ambō	ambae	ambō
Genitive	ambōrum	ambārum	ambōrum
Dative	ambōbus	ambābus	ambōbus
Accusative	ambōs ambō	ambās	ambō
Ablative	ambōbus	ambābus	ambōbus
Vocative	ambō	ambae	ambō

Descendants

• English: ambi-
• Esperanto: ambaŭ
• Galician: ambos
• Ido: amba
• Interlingua: ambe
• Italian: ambo

• Old French: ambe
• French: ambi-
• Old Portuguese: ambos
• Portuguese: ambos
• Romanian: ambii, îmbi
• Spanish: ambos, ambo

See also

• duo
• uterque
• binus

References

• ambo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ambo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ambo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• ambo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

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Minangkabau

Pronoun

ambo

1. first person singular; I

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀅𑀫𑁆𑀩𑁄 (Brahmi script)
• अम्बो (Devanagari script)
• অম্বো (Bengali script)
• අම‍්බො (Sinhalese script)
• အမ္ဗော (Burmese script)
• อมฺโพ or อัมโพ (Thai script)
• ᩋᨾᩛᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
• ອມ຺ໂພ or ອັມໂພ (Lao script)
• អម្ពោ (Khmer script)

Noun

ambo

1. nominative singular of amba (“mango tree”)

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin ambo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈambo/, [ˈãmbo]

Noun

ambo m (plural ambos)

1. (Argentina, Chile) suit

Related terms

• ambos

Further reading

• “ambo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.