ambitus

== English == === Etymology === From Latin ambitus (“circuit, ostentation”). Doublet of ambit. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈæmbɪtəs/ Hyphenation: am‧bi‧tus === Noun === ambitus (plural ambituses or ambiti) (music) The range of a melody, especially those of ecclesiastical chants. (botany, zoology) The exterior edge or border of a thing, such as a leaf or shell. (historical, Roman antiquity) A canvassing for votes. ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === mitsuba == Indonesian == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin ambītus. === Pronunciation === (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /amˈbitus/ [amˈbi.t̪ʊs] Rhymes: -itus Syllabification: am‧bi‧tus === Noun === ambitus (plural ambitus-ambitus) (music) ambitus === Further reading === “ambitus”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016 == Latin == === Etymology 1 === From ambiō +‎ -tus (forming action nouns). ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈam.bɪ.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈam.bi.tus] ==== Noun ==== ambitus m (genitive ambitūs); fourth declension a going around, walking around circuit orbit, revolution, cycle periphrasis, circumlocution show, ostentation, vanity an unlawful striving for posts of honor, canvassing, especially by bribery; (by extension) bribery environment ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. ===== Descendants ===== === Etymology 2 === Perfect passive participle of ambiō. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [amˈbiː.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [amˈbiː.tus] ==== Participle ==== ambītus (feminine ambīta, neuter ambītum); first/second-declension participle skirted encircled, surrounded campaigned, canvassed sought, striven for ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. === Further reading === “ambītus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ambītus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ambītus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “ambītus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “ambitus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. "ambitus", 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) Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “ambitus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “ambitus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin == Polish == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin ambītus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /amˈbi.tus/ Rhymes: -itus Syllabification: am‧bi‧tus === Noun === ambitus m inan (indeclinable) (music) ambitus (range of a melody, especially those of ecclesiastical chants) ==== Related terms ==== === References === === Further reading === ambitus in Polish dictionaries at PWN ambitus in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego == Romanian == === Etymology === Borrowed from French ambitus. === Noun === ambitus n (plural ambitusuri) ambitus ==== Declension ====