ambo

See also: ambó, and Ambo

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈæm.bəʊ/
• Rhymes: -æmbəʊ

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin ambō, from Ancient Greek ἄμβων (ámbōn).

Noun

ambo (plural ambos or ambones)

1. A raised platform in an early Christian church, as well as in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic churches.
   • 1918, Leo Tolstoy, translated by Louise & Aylmer Maude, Anna Karenina, Oxford, published 1998, page 438:

     ‘It will get better somehow,’ he thought, and went to the ambo. On going up the steps and turning to the right he saw the priest.

   • 1997, John Julius Norwich, A Short History of Byzantium, Penguin, published 1998, page 150:

     the Emperor arrived and instead of moving directly to his seat climbed to the top level of the ambo, the great three-decker pulpit of polychrome marble.

2. (Roman Catholicism) A stationary podium used for readings and homilies.
   • 2010, General Instruction of the Roman Missal‎^[1], United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, published 2011, section #309:

     The dignity of the Word of God requires that in the church there be a suitable place from which it may be proclaimed and toward which the attention of the faithful naturally turns during the Liturgy of the Word. It is appropriate that generally this place be a stationary ambo and not simply a movable lectern.

Related terms

• ambon, lectern, podium, pulpit

Translations

raised platform

• Bulgarian: амвон (bg) (amvon)
• Catalan: ambó m
• Finnish: ambo (fi), lukupulpetti
• French: ambon (fr) m
• Galician: ambón m
• Italian: ambone (it)
• Portuguese: ambão (pt) m
• Russian: амво́н (ru) m (amvón)
• Spanish: ambón m

stationary podium

• Czech: ambon m
• Finnish: saarnastuoli (fi), ambo (fi)
• German: Ambo (de) m
• Indonesian: ambo (id)
• Polish: ambona (pl) f
• Portuguese: ambão (pt) m
• Vietnamese: giảng đài

Etymology 2

Clipping of ambulance +‎ -o.

Noun

ambo (plural ambos)

1. (informal) An ambulance driver.
2. (informal) An ambulance.
   • 2004 Dec. 19, David Simon & al., "Mission Accomplished", The Wire, Season 3, Episode 12, 00:31:54:

     Rawls: I don't want the fuckin' reporters seeing any ambos. Shit.

Translations

informal: ambulance driver

• Bulgarian: шофьор на линейка (šofjor na linejka)
• Finnish: sirrakuski
• French: ambulancier (fr) m

informal: ambulance

• Finnish: sirra

Anagrams

• Bamo, moab, MOAB, boma, Abom, Moab, moAb, MOBA, Mabo

Asi

Noun

ambò

1. mouse; rat

Buginese

Noun

ambo

1. father

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈam.bo/
• Rhymes: -bo
• Hyphenation: am‧bo

Etymology 1

Noun

ambo (plural ambo-ambo, first-person possessive amboku, second-person possessive ambomu, third-person possessive ambonya)

1. Alternative spelling of hamba

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Late Latin ambō, from Ancient Greek ἄμβων (ámbōn).

Noun

ambo (plural ambo-ambo, first-person possessive amboku, second-person possessive ambomu, third-person possessive ambonya)

1. (Catholicism) ambo: stationary podium used for readings and homilies.

   Hypernym: mimbar

Further reading

• “ambo” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈam.bo/
• Rhymes: -ambo
• Hyphenation: àm‧bo

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin ambō.

Determiner

ambo (usually invariable, rare masculine plural ambi, rare feminine plural ambe)

1. (literary) both

   Synonyms: ambedue, (literary, obsolete) amendue, entrambi

   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIII”, in Inferno [Hell]‎^[2], lines 58–61; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[3], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Io son colui che tenni ambo le chiavi
     del cor di Federigo, e che le volsi,
     serrando e diserrando, sì soavi,
     che dal secreto suo quasi ogn’ uom tolsi

     I am the one who kept both keys to Frederick's heart, and turned them, locking and unlocking, so softly, that I kept almost everyone from his secrets

Etymology 2

Noun use of the above determiner.

Noun

ambo m (plural ambi)

1. double (in various games)

Further reading

• ambo¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• ambo² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• boma

Javanese

Romanization

ambo

1. Romanization of ꦲꦩ꧀ꦧꦺꦴ

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈam.boː/, [ˈämboː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈam.bo/, [ˈämbo]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *amβō, cognate to Ancient Greek ἄμφω (ámphō, “both”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂n̥tbʰóh₁ (“both”), proposed to be from *h₂n̥t-bʰi (“from both sides”), one case form in -bʰi from the root noun *h₂ent- (“front, front side”), whence ante.

Related to ambi-, from Latin *amβi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi (“round about, around”), cognate to Ancient Greek ἀμφί (amphí, “around”), Gaulish ambi-, Proto-Germanic *umbi, Sanskrit उभौ (ubháu, “both, the two”), अभि (abhí, “towards, over, upon”).

Determiner

ambō m (feminine ambae, neuter ambō)

1. both (of objects occurring in pairs)

   Coordinate terms: duo, uterque

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid VI.540:

     Hic locus est, partēs ubi sē via findit in ambās: dextera quae […]

     This is the place where the way parts in both directions: the right one […]

Declension

Irregular adjective, plural only.

	plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	ambō	ambae	ambō
genitive	ambōrum	ambārum	ambōrum
dative	ambōbus	ambābus	ambōbus
accusative	ambōs ambō	ambās	ambō
ablative	ambōbus	ambābus	ambōbus
vocative	ambō	ambae	ambō

(The irregular declension is a vestige of Latin's dual, defunct in the extant literature.)

Descendants

• English: ambi-
• Esperanto: ambaŭ
• Galician: ambos
• Ido: amba
• Interlingua: ambe
• Italian: ambo
• Old French: ambe, andeus
• French: ambi-
• Occitan: ambedós
• Old Galician-Portuguese: ambos
• Portuguese: ambos
• Romanian: ambii, îmbi
• Old Spanish: amos, ambos
  • Spanish: ambos, ambo

See also

• duo
• uterque
• binus
• English Wendens Ambo

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄμβων (ámbōn).

Noun

ambō m

1. (Medieval Latin) pulpit, lectern

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ambō	ambōnēs
genitive	ambōnis	ambōnum
dative	ambōnī	ambōnibus
accusative	ambōnem	ambōnēs
ablative	ambōne	ambōnibus
vocative	ambō	ambōnēs

Descendants

• English: ambo
• Indonesian: ambo
• Italian: ambone
  • Polish: ambona

Further reading

• “ambo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ambo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ambo”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• ambo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• ambo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

Minangkabau

Etymology

From earlier form hambo, from Sanskrit हम्भाय (hambhāya, “low”), compare to Sanskrit हंबतारा (haṃbatārā, “good man”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /am.bɔ/

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Pronoun

ambo

1. first person singular; I

Synonyms

awak, den

Occitan

Alternative forms

• ab (Gard)
• amb (Languedoc)
• ambé (Provençal)
• dab (Gascony)
• damb (Gascony)
• embé (Provençal)

Adverb

ambo (Vivaro-alpine)

1. (accompaniment) with

Old Javanese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit हम्भाय (hambhāya, “low”), compare to Sanskrit हंबतारा (haṃbatārā, “good man”). Attested in the Old Javanese prose of Tantri Kaḍiri.

Noun

ambo

1. escort (who walks beside a horse, etc.)

Related terms

• hamba

 

Descendants

• Javanese: ꦲꦩ꧀ꦧꦺꦴ (ambo)

Further reading

• "ambo" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀅𑀫𑁆𑀩𑁄 (Brahmi script)
• अम्बो (Devanagari script)
• অম্বো (Bengali script)
• අම‍්බො (Sinhalese script)
• အမ္ဗော or ဢမ္ၿေႃ or ဢမ်ၿေႃ (Burmese script)
• อมฺโพ or อัมโพ (Thai script)
• ᩋᨾᩛᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
• ອມ຺ໂພ or ອັມໂພ (Lao script)
• អម្ពោ (Khmer script)
• 𑄃𑄟𑄴𑄝𑄮 (Chakma script)

Noun

ambo

1. nominative singular of amba (“mango tree”)

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin ambō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈambo/ [ˈãm.bo]
• Rhymes: -ambo
• Syllabification: am‧bo

Noun

ambo m (plural ambos)

1. (Argentina, Chile, Uruguay) suit

Related terms

• ambos

 

Further reading

• “ambo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28