ambo

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈæmbəʊ/
• Rhymes: -æmbəʊ

Etymology 1

From Late Latin ambō, from Ancient Greek ἄμβων (ambon).

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)

Translations

raised platform

• Bulgarian: амвон (bg) (amvon)
• French: ambon (fr) m

• Italian: ambone
• Russian: амво́н (ru) m (amvón)

stationary podium

• Vietnamese: giảng đài

Related terms

• ambon, lectern, podium, pulpit

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

• French: ambulancier (fr) m

Anagrams

• boma
• Moab, MOAB

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Italian

Adjective

ambo (invariable)

1. both

Noun

ambo m (plural ambi)

1. double (in various games)

Anagrams

• boma

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ambhi (“round about, around”), probably an ablative plural of *ant-bhi (“from both sides”), from *h₂énti, locative singular of the root noun *h₂ent- (“front, front side”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ἀντί (ánti, “opposite, facing”), Sanskrit अन्ति (ánti), Old Armenian ընդ (ənd), Tocharian B ānte, and Old English ende (English end).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈam.boː/

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)

Inflection

Irregular. (Note: the word "ambo", by definition, has no singular.)

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

Descendants

• Interlingua: ambe
• Italian: ambo
• Old French: ambe
• Old Portuguese: ambos
• Portuguese: ambos
• Romanian: ambii, îmbi
• Spanish: ambos, ambo

See also

• duō
• uterque

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin ambo

Noun

ambo m (plural ambos)

1. (Argentina, Chile) suit

See also

• ambos