Amboとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

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

名詞

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.

関連する語

• ambon, lectern, podium, pulpit

語源 2

Clipping of ambulance +‎ -o.

名詞

ambo (plural ambos)

1. (informal) An ambulance driver.
2. (informal) An ambulance.
   • 2004 Dec. 19, David Simon & al., "Mission Accomplished", The Wire, Season 3, Episode 12, 00:31:54:

     Rawls: I don't want the fuckin' reporters seeing any ambos. Shit.

語源 3

Clipping of ambassador +‎ -o.

名詞

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, […]

アナグラム

• Bamo, moab, MOAB, boma, Abom, Moab, moAb, MOBA, Mabo

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈam.boː], [ˈam.bɔ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈam.bo]

語源 1

From Proto-Italic *amβō, cognate to Ancient Greek ἄμφω (ámphō, “both”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰóh₁, possibly prefixed with the root noun *h₂ent- (“front, front side”) (whence ante). Often considered related to ambi-, but according to Dunkel this only applies to the first syllable.

限定詞

ambō̆ m (feminine ambae, neuter ambō̆)

1. both (of objects occurring in pairs)

   Coordinate terms: duo, uterque

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid VI.540:

     Hic locus est, partēs ubi sē via findit in ambās: dextera quae […]

     This is the place where the way parts in both directions: the right one […]

語形変化

Irregular adjective, plural only.

(The irregular declension is a vestige of Latin's dual, seen also in duo but otherwise defunct in the extant literature.)

派生した語

参考

• duo
• uterque
• binus
• English Wendens Ambo

語源 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄμβων (ámbōn).

名詞

ambō m

1. (Medieval Latin) pulpit, lectern

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生した語

• English: ambo
• German: Ambo
• Indonesian: ambo
• Italian: ambone
  • Polish: ambona

参照

Further reading

• “ambo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ambo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ambo, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• "ambo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “ambo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995), New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

接頭辞

ambo-

1. Alternative form of ambi-

派生語