From LateMiddle English ambyte Latin ambitus ( “ circuit; circumference, perimeter; area within a perimeter; ground around a building; cycle, orbit, revolution ” ) (compareLate Latin ambitus ( “ neighbourhood; wall of a castle, monastery, or town; cloister; parish boundary ” ) ), fromambīre -tus ( suffix formingverbal nouns fromverbs ) .[ 1] Ambīre is thepresent active infinitive ofambiō ( “ to go around, to skirt; to encircle, surround ” ) , fromambi- ( “ prefix meaning ‘both, on both sides’” ) (possibly ultimately fromProto-Indo-European *h₂ent- ( “ front; face; forehead ” ) ) +eō ( “ to go, move ” ) (ultimately fromProto-Indo-European *h₁ey- ( “ to go ” ) ). The English word is adoublet ofambitus
ambit (plural ambits
( by extension ) Theextent ofactions ,thoughts , or themeaning ofwords , etc. Thearea orsphere ofcontrol andinfluence of something.1913 Gilbert Parker , “‘The Alpine Fellow’”, inThe Judgment House [ … ] , uniform edition, Toronto, Ont.: The Copp, Clark Co.,→OCLC pages412–413 :He had invited Destiny to sweep him up in her reaping, by placing himself in theambit of her scythe; but the sharp reaping-hook had passed him by.
( archaic ) boundary around a building, town,region , etc.( archaic , rare ) circumference of somethingcircular ; also, anarc ; acircuit , anorbit .( obsolete ) Chiefly in theplural form ambits open space surrounding abuilding ,town , etc.; thegrounds orprecincts of aplace .Synonym: ( of a house ) curtilage boundary around a building, town, region, etc.
extent of actions, thoughts, etc.
area or sphere of control and influence of something
ambit
third-person singular present active indicative ofambiō Learned borrowing fromLatin ambītus [ 1] [ 2] [ 3]
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( architecture ) ambulatory Synonym: obejście ( architecture ) retrochoir ambit katedralnegocathedralretrochoir ambit katedrya cathedral'sretrochoir ( archaic ) ambition Synonym: ambicja ( archaic , architecture ) cloister Synonyms: ganek krużganek ^ Mirosław Bańko , Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021 ) “ambit ”, inWielki słownik wyrazów obcych ,→ISBN ^ Witold Doroszewski , editor (1958–1969 ), “ambit ”, inSłownik języka polskiego PWN ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023 ) “ambit ”, inSłownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish ambit inWielki słownik języka polskiego , Instytut Języka Polskiego PANambit in Polish dictionaries at PWN“NU ”, inElektroniczny 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 Słownik języka polskiego Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861 ) “ambit Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 J. Karłowicz ,A. Kryński ,W. Niedźwiedzki , editors (1900 ), “ambit ”, inSłownik języka polskiego 30 ambit in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
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