ambedo

== English == === Etymology === From albedo, a physics term that describes the proportion of light reflected by a substance (from the Latin term for whiteness). Ambedo refers to the tendency both to reflect and to absorb. Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig in 2011, whose project, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, aims to come up with new words for emotions that currently lack words. === Pronunciation === (US) IPA(key): /æmˈbi.doʊ/ Hyphenation: am‧be‧do === Noun === ambedo (uncountable) A kind of melancholic trance in which a person becomes completely absorbed in vivid sensory details. === References === === Further reading === Koenig, John (2021), “ambedo”, in The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, pages 77–79 == Latin == === Etymology === From ambi- +‎ edō. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈam.bɛ.doː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈam.be.do] === Verb === ambedō (present infinitive ambedere or ambēsse, perfect active ambēdī, supine ambēsum or ambēssum or ambēstum); third conjugation, irregular alternative forms to eat or gnaw around; erode (figurative) to waste; consume ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === References === “ambedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ambedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “ambedo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.