ambrosia

English

Ambrosia dessert

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 (countable and uncountable, plural ambrosias)

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) The food of the gods, thought to confer immortality.
2. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) The anointing-oil of the gods.
3. Any food with an especially delicious flavour or fragrance.
4. Anything delightfully sweet and pleasing.
5. An annual herb historically used medicinally and in cooking, Dysphania botrys.
6. A mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae.
7. Any fungus of a number of species that insects such as ambrosia beetles carry as symbionts, "farming" them on poor-quality food such as wood, where they grow, providing food for the insect.
8. A dessert made of shredded coconuts and tropical fruits such as pineapples and oranges; some recipes also include ingredients such as marshmallow and cream.

Derived terms

• ambrosia beetle
• ambrosia fungus
• ambrosial
• ambrosian

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *mer-‎ (2 c, 1 e)

Translations

food of gods or delicious foods

• Armenian: ամբրոսիա (hy) (ambrosia), ամբրոս (hy) (ambros)

  Old Armenian: անուշակ կերակուր (anušak kerakur)

• Bulgarian: амбро́зия (bg) f (ambrózija)
• Burmese: နတ်သုဓာ (my) (natsu.dha)
• Catalan: ambrosia (ca) f
• Chinese:

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

• Danish: ambrosia
• Dutch: ambrozijn (nl), godenbrood n
• Esperanto: ambrozio
• Estonian: ambroosia
• Finnish: ambrosia (fi)
• French: ambroisie (fr) f
• German: Ambrosia (de) f, Götterspeise (de) f
• Greek: αμβροσία (el) f (amvrosía)

  Ancient: ἀμβροσία f (ambrosía)

• Hebrew: אמברוסיה‎ (he)
• Irish: ambróise f
• Italian: ambrosia (it)
• Japanese: アムブロシア (amuburoshia)
• Latin: ambrosia f
• 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 (sa) m (amṛta)

See also

• manna (noun)
• mead (noun)
• nectar (noun)

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “ambrosia”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

• Saboraim

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Finnish

Etymology

From translingual Ambrosia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑmbrosiɑ/, [ˈɑmbro̞ˌs̠iɑ]
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Syllabification^(key): amb‧ro‧si‧a

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

Possessive forms of ambrosia (type kulkija)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	ambrosiani	ambrosiamme
2nd person	ambrosiasi	ambrosianne
3rd person	ambrosiansa

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Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /amˈbrɔ.zja/
• Rhymes: -ɔzja
• 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/, [ämˈbrɔs̠iä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /amˈbro.si.a/, [ämˈbrɔːs̬iä]

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.

Declension

First-declension noun.

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

• → Catalan: ambrosia
• → 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 Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “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

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃.bɾoˈzi.ɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃.bɾoˈzi.ɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃.bɾoˈzi.a/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃.bɾuˈzi.ɐ/

Noun

ambrosia f (plural ambrosias)

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