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See also: ambó and Ambo

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin ambō, from Ancient Greek ἄμβων (ámbōn).

Noun

ambo (plural ambos or ambones)

  1. A raised platform in an early Christian church, as well as in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic churches.
    • 1918, Leo Tolstoy, translated by Louise & Aylmer Maude, Anna Karenina, Oxford, published 1998, page 438:
      ‘It will get better somehow,’ he thought, and went to the ambo. On going up the steps and turning to the right he saw the priest.
    • 1997, John Julius Norwich, A Short History of Byzantium, Penguin, published 1998, page 150:
      the Emperor arrived and instead of moving directly to his seat climbed to the top level of the ambo, the great three-decker pulpit of polychrome marble.
  2. (Roman Catholicism) A stationary podium used for readings and homilies.
    • 2010, General Instruction of the Roman Missal‎, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, published 2011, section #309:
      The dignity of the Word of God requires that in the church there be a suitable place from which it may be proclaimed and toward which the attention of the faithful naturally turns during the Liturgy of the Word. It is appropriate that generally this place be a stationary ambo and not simply a movable lectern.
Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of ambulance +‎ -o.

Noun

ambo (plural ambos)

  1. (informal) An ambulance driver.
  2. (informal) An ambulance.
Translations

Etymology 3

Clipping of ambassador +‎ -o.

Noun

ambo (plural ambos)

  1. (slang) An ambassador.
    • 2022, Susan Gillerman Boggs, Journey Across Time: A Diplomatic Spouse in South Asia:
      The Ambo needed a sizable embassy support staff to hold his hand at every step of the way, […]

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Noun

ambò

  1. mouse; rat

Buginese

Noun

ambo

  1. father

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin ambō, from Ancient Greek ἄμβων (ámbōn).

Pronunciation

Noun

ambo (plural ambo-ambo)

  1. (Catholicism) ambo (stationary podium used for readings and homilies)
    Hypernym: mimbar

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈam.bo/
  • Rhymes: -ambo
  • Hyphenation: àm‧bo

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin ambō.

Determiner

ambo (usually invariable, rare masculine plural ambi, rare feminine plural ambe)

  1. (literary) both
    Synonyms: ambedue, (literary, obsolete) entrambi, amendue
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIII”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 58–61; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Io son colui che tenni ambo le chiavi
      del cor di Federigo, e che le volsi,
      serrando e diserrando, sì soavi,
      che dal secreto suo quasi ogn’ uom tolsi
      I am the one who kept both keys to Frederick's heart, and turned them, locking and unlocking, so softly, that I kept almost everyone from his secrets

Etymology 2

Noun use of the above determiner.

Noun

ambo m (plural ambi)

  1. double (in various games)

Further reading

  • ambo1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • ambo2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Javanese

Romanization

ambo

  1. romanization of ꦲꦩ꧀ꦧꦺꦴ

Latin

Minangkabau

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Old Javanese

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