ambos

See also: Ambos

English

Noun

ambos

1. plural of ambo

Anagrams

• Bosma, MOABs, MOBAs, Sambo, bomas, sambo

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese ambos, from Latin ambō, ambōs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi (“round about, around”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈambos/ [ˈam.bos̺]
• Rhymes: -ambos

Pronoun

ambos m pl (feminine ambas)

1. both

Derived terms

• Entrambosríos
• Trambosríos

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ambos”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “ambos”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ambos”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “ambos”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ambos”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Ladino

Alternative forms

• anbos

Etymology

Inherited from Latin ambōs m pl. Old Spanish consistently had amos, representing the inherited form, while ambos existed in neighbouring Old Leonese. Later, Latin influence probably helped ambos spread into Ladino as well, where it displaced the form without /b/.

Determiner

ambos m pl (Hebrew spelling אמבוס, feminine plural ambas)

1. both (all two of)
   • 1553, “Genesis, IX”, in Yom Tob Atías, Abraham Usque, transl., Biblia de Ferrara‎^[1], page 6:

     Y tomó Sem y Yaphet el paño, y puſieron ſobre hombro de ambos ellos, y anduvieron atras, y cubieron à deſcoberturade ſu padre, y ſus faces atras, y deſcobertura de ſu padre novieron.

     And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.

Pronoun

ambos m pl (Hebrew spelling אמבוס, feminine plural ambas)

1. both (this pair; that pair)

Latin

Noun

ambōs

1. accusative masculine of ambō

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese ambos, from Latin ambōs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi (“round about, around”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɐ̃.bus/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɐ̃.bus/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈɐ̃.buʃ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɐ̃.bos/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɐ̃.buʃ/

• Hyphenation: am‧bos

Determiner

ambos m pl (feminine plural ambas)

1. both

Pronoun

ambos m pl (feminine plural ambas)

1. both

   Synonym: os dois

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin ambō, ambōs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈambos/, [ˈämbɔzɔ̆]

Adjective

ambos m pl (feminine plural ambas)

1. both

   Synonym: sos duos, sas duas

Numeral

ambos

1. both

Pronoun

ambos

1. both

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈambos/ [ˈãm.bos]

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• Rhymes: -ambos
• Syllabification: am‧bos

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin ambōs m pl. Old Spanish consistently had amos, representing the inherited form, while ambos existed in neighbouring Old Leonese. Later, Latin influence helped ambos spread into Spanish as well, where it displaced the form without /b/.

Adjective

ambos m pl (feminine plural ambas)

1. both

   Synonym: los dos, las dos

   • 2009 January 10, C. De Carlos, “Kirchner comienza el proceso de expropiación de Aerolíneas a Marsans”, in ABC.es‎^[2]:

     Las negociaciones entre el Gobierno y la empresa se rompieron a mediados de diciembre, después de que el Ejecutivo argentino rechazara cumplir un acuerdo, suscrito en julio, que le obligaba a buscar un tasador independiente de la compañía si ambas partes no coincidían, como así fue, en sus respectivas auditorías.

     Negotiations between the government and the company broke down in mid-December, after the Argentine executive rejected an agreement signed in July, which obliged him to seek an independent company if both sides differed, as they did, in their respective audits.

Pronoun

ambos

1. both

Etymology 2

Noun

ambos m pl

1. plural of ambo

Further reading

• “ambos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “abos”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 238