ambulo

Latin

Etymology

From ambi- +‎ *alō (“to wander”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“to wander”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ἄλη (álē, “wandering”), ἀλύω (alúō, “to wander in mind, to roam”). See alucinor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈam.bu.loː/, [ˈämbʊɫ̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈam.bu.lo/, [ˈämbulo]
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Verb

1. I traverse, travel.
2. I walk.

Synonyms

• (walk): cēdō, eō, vādō

Derived terms

Derived terms

• abambulō
• adambulō
• ambulācrum
• ambulātiō

• ambulātor
• ambulātūra
• ambulātus
• circumambulō

• coambulō
• deambulō
• inambulō
• obambulō

• perambulō
• praeambulō
• redambulō
• superambulō

Related terms

• ambiō
• ambulātilis
• ambulātiuncula
• ambulātōrius
• ambulātrīx

Descendants

• Aromanian: imnu, imnari
• Catalan: anar
• English: amble
• French: déambuler, ambuler, ambler
• Italian: ambiare

• Megleno-Romanian: amnu, amnare
• Old Provençal: amblar
• Portuguese: ambrar, ambular (borrowing)
• Romanian: umbla, umblare, ambular
• Spanish: amblar

References

• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 27
• “ambulo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ambulo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ambulo 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)
• ambulo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a safe journey to you: bene ambula et redambula
    

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Noun

ambulo

1. sorghum