ambrosia

See also: Ambrosia

English

Etymology

From Latin ambrosia (“food of the gods”), from Ancient Greek ἀμβροσία (ambrosia, “immortality”), from ἄμβροτος (ambrotos, “immortal”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + βροτός (brotos, “mortal”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /æmˈbɹoʊʒə/

Noun

Wikipedia

ambrosia (uncountable)

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) The food of the gods, thought to confer immortality.
2. Any food with an especially delicious flavour or fragrance.
3. A mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae.

Derived terms

• ambrosia beetle

Translations

food of gods or delicious foods

• Armenian: ամբրոսիա (ambrosia), ամբրոս (ambros)
• Bulgarian: амброзия (bg) f (ambrózija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 神食 (zh) (shénshí), 神的食物 (shén de shíwù)

• Danish: ambrosia
• Dutch: ambrozijn
• Esperanto: ambrozio
• Estonian: ambroosia
• Finnish: ambrosia (fi)
• French: ambroisie (fr) f
• German: Ambrosia (de) f
• Greek: αμβροσία (el) f (amvrosía)
• Hebrew: אמברוסיה (he)
• Italian: ambrosia

• Japanese: 神酒 (みき, miki; しんしゅ, shinshu), 神食 (しんし, shinshi), アンブロージア (anburōjia), アムブロシア (amuburoshia), 神々の食物 (かみがみのしょくもつ, kamigami no shokumotsu)
• Lithuanian: ambrozija
• Malay: ambrosia
• Norwegian: ambrosia (no)
• Polish: ambrozja (pl) f
• Portuguese: ambrosia (pt) f
• Russian: амброзия (ru) f (ambrózija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: амброзија f

  Roman: ambrozija f

• Slovene: ambrozija (sl)
• Spanish: ambrosía (es) f
• Swedish: ambrosia (sv)

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Translations to be checked

• Sanskrit अमृत m (amṛta)

See also

• manna noun
• mead noun
• nectar noun

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Finnish

Noun

ambrosia

1. ambrosia

Declension

Declension of ambrosia (Kotus type 12/kulkija)

		singular	plural
nominative		ambrosia	ambrosiat
accusative	zero?	ambrosia	ambrosiat
	normal	ambrosian
genitive		ambrosian	ambrosioiden ambrosioitten ambrosiainrare
partitive		ambrosiaa	ambrosioita
inessive		ambrosiassa	ambrosioissa
elative		ambrosiasta	ambrosioista
illative		ambrosiaan	ambrosioihin
adessive		ambrosialla	ambrosioilla
ablative		ambrosialta	ambrosioilta
allative		ambrosialle	ambrosioille
essive		ambrosiana	ambrosioina
translative		ambrosiaksi	ambrosioiksi
instructive		—	ambrosioin
abessive		ambrosiatta	ambrosioitta
comitative		—	ambrosioineen

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Italian

Noun

ambrosia f (plural ambrosie)

1. ambrosia (all senses)
2. honeydew

Anagrams

• arabismo
• bramosia
• brasiamo

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀμβροσία (ambrosia, “immortality”), from ἄμβροτος (ambrotos, “immortal”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /amˈbro.si.a/

Noun

ambrosia f (genitive ambrosiae); first declension

1. The food of the gods; ambrosia.
2. The unguent of the gods.
3. The plant, artemisia, of the genus Artemisia.
4. An antidote to a poison.

Inflection

First declension.

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	ambrosia	ambrosiae
genitive	ambrosiae	ambrosiārum
dative	ambrosiae	ambrosiīs
accusative	ambrosiam	ambrosiās
ablative	ambrosiā	ambrosiīs
vocative	ambrosia	ambrosiae

Derived terms

• ambrosiacus

Related terms

• ambrosius

Descendants

• English: ambrosia
• Finnish: ambrosia

• French: ambroisie
• Italian: ambrosia
• Russian: амбро́зия f (ambrózija)

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Portuguese

Noun

ambrosia f (plural ambrosias)

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) ambrosia (food of gods or delicious foods)