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Ambrosius

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See also: ambrosius

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin Ambrosius.

Proper noun

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Ambrosius (plural Ambrosiuses)

  1. A surname from German.

Statistics

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  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Ambrosius is the 39486th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 557 individuals. Ambrosius is most common among White (95.15%) individuals.

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀμβρόσιος (ambrósios, immortal, divine).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Ambrosius m sg (genitive Ambrosiī or Ambrosī, feminine Ambrosia); second declension

  1. A masculine nomen equivalent to Ambrose, famously held by:
    1. Aurelius Ambrosius (AD circa 340–397), a celebrated Church Doctor and Father, consular prefect of Aemilia and Liguria from AD 372 and bishop of Milan AD 374–397

Declension

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Second-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Ambrosius
genitive Ambrosiī
Ambrosī1
dative Ambrosiō
accusative Ambrosium
ablative Ambrosiō
vocative Ambrosī

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  • Ambrŏsĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • 2 Ambrŏsĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette:112/2

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