ambedo

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English

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Etymology

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From albedo, a physics term that describes the proportion of light reflected by a substance (from the Latin term for whiteness). Ambedo refers to the tendency both to reflect and to absorb. Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig in 2012, whose project, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, aims to come up with new words for emotions that currently lack words.

Noun

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ambedo (uncountable)

  1. A kind of melancholic trance in which a person becomes completely absorbed in vivid sensory details.
    • 2014 December 22, Tommy McMahon, Hero of the Day, Author House, →ISBN, page 71:
      Later that day, E.K. was sitting on the concrete porch that was the face of his house, basking in ambedo—he became vividly entranced by the seemingly meaningless things around him.
    • 2021, Nishita Patil, MEET YOURSELF, SpotWrite Publications, page 12:
      The intense, nutty aroma of freshly brewed coffee was still lingering in the air of my modest den. With my back against my hulking bookshelf, I, now in ambedo, watched the rain drip-drop on the window pane. But the pattering of the rain against the glass door of the balcony was so intense and unsettling that for a brief moment, I experienced chrysalism.
    • 2021 February 1, Priyanka Pareek, AMAIRA, Blue Rose Publishers, →ISBN, page 106:
      Ambedo, a melancholic trance.
      Fight of the Elements.
      It was quiet like never before. Kailash was moving towards the north. Oce was quiet, silently helping the movement. All the mountain children back in their ambedo.
    • 2022 January 22, Wayne Kyle Spitzer, Riders on the Storm, Hobb's End Books, page 743:
      Ambedo. That's what he was feeling as he ran after Selena through the tall grass (having awakened with a knot on his head to find her fleeing) and tried not to think about the danger. Ambedo: that trance-like state in which one became became so absorbed by their surroundings—the wind massaging the green hills so that they undulated like sea anemones or the red-gold chiaroscuro sky lending palette and poetry to everything or the sun glaring over the horizon like a burning but indifferent god—that they forgot what they were doing or even why they were there.

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Latin

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Etymology

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From ambi- +‎ edō.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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ambedō (present infinitive ambedere, perfect active ambēdī, supine ambēsum); third conjugation

  1. to eat or gnaw around; erode
  2. (transferred) to waste; consume

Conjugation

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   Conjugation of ambedō (third conjugation)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present ambedō ambedis ambedit ambedimus ambeditis ambedunt
imperfect ambedēbam ambedēbās ambedēbat ambedēbāmus ambedēbātis ambedēbant
future ambedam ambedēs ambedet ambedēmus ambedētis ambedent
perfect ambēdī ambēdistī ambēdit ambēdimus ambēdistis ambēdērunt,
ambēdēre
pluperfect ambēderam ambēderās ambēderat ambēderāmus ambēderātis ambēderant
future perfect ambēderō ambēderis ambēderit ambēderimus ambēderitis ambēderint
passive present ambedor ambederis,
ambedere
ambeditur ambedimur ambediminī ambeduntur
imperfect ambedēbar ambedēbāris,
ambedēbāre
ambedēbātur ambedēbāmur ambedēbāminī ambedēbantur
future ambedar ambedēris,
ambedēre
ambedētur ambedēmur ambedēminī ambedentur
perfect ambēsus + present active indicative of sum
pluperfect ambēsus + imperfect active indicative of sum
future perfect ambēsus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present ambedam ambedās ambedat ambedāmus ambedātis ambedant
imperfect ambederem ambederēs ambederet ambederēmus ambederētis ambederent
perfect ambēderim ambēderīs ambēderit ambēderīmus ambēderītis ambēderint
pluperfect ambēdissem ambēdissēs ambēdisset ambēdissēmus ambēdissētis ambēdissent
passive present ambedar ambedāris,
ambedāre
ambedātur ambedāmur ambedāminī ambedantur
imperfect ambederer ambederēris,
ambederēre
ambederētur ambederēmur ambederēminī ambederentur
perfect ambēsus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect ambēsus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present ambede ambedite
future ambeditō ambeditō ambeditōte ambeduntō
passive present ambedere ambediminī
future ambeditor ambeditor ambeduntor
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives ambedere ambēdisse ambēsūrum esse ambedī ambēsum esse ambēsum īrī
participles ambedēns ambēsūrus ambēsus ambedendus,
ambedundus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
ambedendī ambedendō ambedendum ambedendō ambēsum ambēsū

Derived terms

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References

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  • ambedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ambedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ambedo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.