ambit

== English == === Etymology === From Late Middle English ambyte, borrowed from Latin ambitus (“circuit; circumference, perimeter; area within a perimeter; ground around a building; cycle, orbit, revolution”) (compare Late Latin ambitus (“neighbourhood; wall of a castle, monastery, or town; cloister; parish boundary”)), from ambīre + -tus (suffix forming verbal nouns from verbs). Ambīre is the present active infinitive of ambiō (“to go around, to skirt; to encircle, surround”), from ambi- (“prefix meaning ‘both, on both sides’”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- (“front; face; forehead”)) + eō (“to go, move”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- (“to go”)). The English word is a doublet of ambitus. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈæmbɪt/ Rhymes: -æmbɪt Hyphenation: am‧bit === Noun === ambit (plural ambits) (by extension) The extent of actions, thoughts, or the meaning of words, etc. The area or sphere of control and influence of something. (archaic) The boundary around a building, town, region, etc. (archaic, rare) The circumference of something circular; also, an arc; a circuit, an orbit. (obsolete) Chiefly in the plural form ambits: the open space surrounding a building, town, etc.; the grounds or precincts of a place. Synonym: (of a house) curtilage ==== Derived terms ==== ambit claim ==== Related terms ==== ambitus ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === ambit (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === BTAIM, imbat, timba == Latin == === Verb === ambit third-person singular present active indicative of ambiō == Polish == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin ambītus. First attested in 1577. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈam.bit/ Rhymes: -ambit Syllabification: am‧bit === Noun === ambit m inan (architecture) ambulatory Synonym: obejście (architecture) retrochoir ambit katedralnego ― cathedral retrochoir ambit katedry ― a cathedral's retrochoir (archaic) ambition Synonym: ambicja (archaic, architecture) cloister Synonyms: ganek, krużganek ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === References === === Further reading === ambit in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN ambit in Polish dictionaries at PWN Barbara Rykiel-Kempf (24.08.2022), “AMBIT”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century] Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “ambit”, in Słownik języka polskiego Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “ambit”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “ambit”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 30 ambit in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego