ambactus

== Latin == === Alternative forms === ambaxtus === Etymology === 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 === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [amˈbak.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [amˈbak.tus] === Noun === ambactus m (genitive ambactī); second declension a vassal, dependent a servant, retainer ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== ambactia ==== Descendants ==== === References === “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, 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.