ambiguus
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ambig(ō) (“wander; waver, hesitate”) + -uus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /amˈbi.ɡu.us/, [ämˈbɪɡuʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /amˈbi.ɡu.us/, [ämˈbiːɡuːs]
Adjective
[edit]ambiguus (feminine ambigua, neuter ambiguum, adverb ambiguē); first/second-declension adjective
- going two ways, hither and thither, moving from side-to-side
- hybrid
- changing, fluctuating, wavering
- uncertain, doubtful, undecided, indecisive
- (of discourse) obscure, ambiguous
- (figuratively) wavering, not to be relied on, untrustworthy, unreliable, treacherous
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | ambiguus | ambigua | ambiguum | ambiguī | ambiguae | ambigua | |
genitive | ambiguī | ambiguae | ambiguī | ambiguōrum | ambiguārum | ambiguōrum | |
dative | ambiguō | ambiguae | ambiguō | ambiguīs | |||
accusative | ambiguum | ambiguam | ambiguum | ambiguōs | ambiguās | ambigua | |
ablative | ambiguō | ambiguā | ambiguō | ambiguīs | |||
vocative | ambigue | ambigua | ambiguum | ambiguī | ambiguae | ambigua |
Derived terms
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[edit]References
[edit]- “ambĭgŭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ambiguus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ambiguus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- obsolete, ambiguous expressions: prisca, obsoleta (opp. usitata), ambigua verba
- obsolete, ambiguous expressions: prisca, obsoleta (opp. usitata), ambigua verba
Categories:
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂eǵ-
- Latin terms suffixed with -uus
- Latin 4-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin adjectives
- Latin first and second declension adjectives
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook