ambrosia

See also: Ambrosia and ambrosía

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /æmˈbɹoʊʒə/

Noun

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. An annual herb historically used medicinally and in cooking, Dysphania botrys.
4. A mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae.
5. A dessert made from shredded coconuts and oranges, sometimes including other ingredients such as marshmallow.

Derived terms

• ambrosia beetle
• ambrosial
• ambrosian

Translations

food of gods or delicious foods

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

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

• Danish: ambrosia
• Dutch: ambrozijn, godenbrood n
• Esperanto: ambrozio
• Estonian: ambroosia
• Finnish: ambrosia (fi)
• French: ambroisie (fr) f
• German: Ambrosia (de) f
• Greek: αμβροσία (el) f (amvrosía)
• Hebrew: אמברוסיה‏‎ (he)
• Irish: ambróise f
• Italian: ambrosia (it)
• Japanese: アムブロシア (amuburoshia)

• Lithuanian: ambrozija
• Malay: ambrosia
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ambrosia (no) m

  Nynorsk: ambrosia m

• Polish: ambrozja (pl) f
• Portuguese: ambrosia (pt) f
• Russian: амбро́зия (ru) f (ambrózija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: амброзија f

  Roman: ambrozija (sh) f

• Slovene: ambrozija (sl)
• Spanish: ambrosía (es) f
• Swedish: ambrosia (sv)
• Tagalog: ambrosya
• Volapük: brosiam (vo)

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Translations to be checked

• Sanskrit: ^{(please verify)} अमृत m (amṛta)

See also

• manna noun
• mead noun
• nectar noun

Anagrams

• Saboraim

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Finnish

Noun

ambrosia

1. ambrosia

Declension

Inflection of ambrosia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		ambrosia	ambrosiat
genitive		ambrosian	ambrosioiden ambrosioitten
partitive		ambrosiaa	ambrosioita
illative		ambrosiaan	ambrosioihin
		singular	plural
nominative		ambrosia	ambrosiat
accusative	nom.	ambrosia	ambrosiat
	gen.	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

Etymology

From Latin ambrosia, borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀμβροσίᾱ (ambrosíā, “immortality”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /amˈbrɔ.zja/
• Hyphenation: am‧brò‧sia

Noun

ambrosia f (plural ambrosie)

1. ambrosia (all senses)
2. (figuratively) honeydew

Related terms

• Ambrogio

Anagrams

• arabismo

• bramosia

• brasiamo

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀμβροσία (ambrosía, “immortality”), from ἄμβροτος (ámbrotos, “immortal”).

Pronunciation

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

Case	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)

References

• ambrosia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ambrosia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ambrosia” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• ambrosia in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia^[1]
• ambrosia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ambrosia in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Portuguese

Noun

ambrosia f (plural ambrosias)

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