ambiguitas

Indonesian

Etymology

Affixed ambigu +‎ -itas, learned borrowing from Latin ambiguitās.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ambiɡuˈitas/
• Rhymes: -tas, -as, -s
• Hyphenation: am‧bi‧gu‧i‧tas

Noun

ambiguitas (plural ambiguitas-ambiguitas)

1. ambiguity:
   1. (countable) words or statements that are open to more than one interpretation, explanation or meaning, especially if that meaning cannot be determined from its context.
   2. (uncountable) the state of being ambiguous.

Alternative forms

• ambiguiti (Standard Malay)

Synonyms

• ketidaktentuan
• ketidakjelasan
• ketaksaan

Related terms

• ambigu

Further reading

• “ambiguitas” 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.

Latin

Etymology

From ambiguus +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /am.biˈɡu.i.taːs/, [ämbɪˈɡuɪt̪äːs̠]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /am.biˈɡu.i.tas/, [ämbiˈɡuːit̪äs]

Noun

ambiguitās f (genitive ambiguitātis); third declension

1. ambiguity, uncertainty, equivocalness

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ambiguitās	ambiguitātēs
genitive	ambiguitātis	ambiguitātum
dative	ambiguitātī	ambiguitātibus
accusative	ambiguitātem	ambiguitātēs
ablative	ambiguitāte	ambiguitātibus
vocative	ambiguitās	ambiguitātēs

Descendants

• Asturian: ambigüedá
• Catalan: ambigüitat
• French: ambiguïté
  • English: ambiguity
  • Romanian: ambiguitate
• German: Ambiguität
• Indonesian: ambiguitas
• Italian: ambiguità
• Portuguese: ambiguidade
• Spanish: ambigüedad

References

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