ambactus
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Gaulish ambaxtos (“vassal, high-ranking servant”), from Proto-Celtic *ambaxtos (“servant”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂mbʰi-h₂eǵ- (“drive around”), from *h₂m̥bʰi (“around”) + *h₂eǵ- (“to drive”). See Latin ambigō.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /amˈbak.tus/, [ämˈbäkt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /amˈbak.tus/, [ämˈbäkt̪us]
Noun
[edit]ambactus m (genitive ambactī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | ambactus | ambactī |
genitive | ambactī | ambactōrum |
dative | ambactō | ambactīs |
accusative | ambactum | ambactōs |
ablative | ambactō | ambactīs |
vocative | ambacte | ambactī |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Danish: ambassade
- → Dutch: ambassade
- → English: ambassador
- French: ambacte, ambassade
- Italian: ambasciata, ambasciatore
- → Norwegian: ambassade
- Portuguese: embaixada, embaixador
- Romanian: ambasadă, ambasador
- Spanish: embajada, embajador
References
[edit]- “ambactus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ambactus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ambactus 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)
- ambactus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Categories:
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂eǵ-
- Latin terms borrowed from Gaulish
- Latin terms derived from Gaulish
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Latin 3-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin second declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the second declension
- Latin masculine nouns