ambiguus

== Latin == === Etymology === From ambig(ō) (“wander; waver, hesitate”) + -uus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [amˈbɪ.ɡu.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [amˈbiː.ɡu.us] === Adjective === 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 ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== ambiguē ambiguitās ambiguum ==== Related terms ==== ambāgēs ambigō ==== Descendants ==== === References === “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.