amb

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English

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Etymology

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From ambit, from Latin.

Noun

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amb (plural ambs)

  1. (palynology) The outline of a spore or pollen grain, as seen in a polar view.
    • 1970, Robert Max Kosanke, editor, Symposium on Palynology of the Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary:
      This genus is distinguished from Duplopollis Krutzsch, 1959a, and Cupanieidites Cookson and Pike, 1954, by being syncolpate rather than syncolporate and by the islands at the angles of the amb.

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Anagrams

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Catalan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Catalan ab (Compare Old Occitan ab), from Latin apud. The addition of an -m- is very old, but it was not reflected in spelling until Fabra's orthography in the twentieth century.

Pronunciation

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(Valencia)

  • IPA(key): /am/, /an/, /en/
  • Homophone: en
    • Note: the standard pronunciations is /am/. The pronunciation /en/ is typically used in the Valencian Community and parts of Catalonia, the pronunciation /an/ is used in some southern parts of the Valencian Community.

Preposition

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amb

  1. with
    Antonym: sense

Derived terms

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References

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  • Pei, Mario A. 1948. Ab and the survival of the Latin genitive in Old Italian. Italica 25. 104–106.

Further reading

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Estonian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finno-Permic *ampɜ-. Cognate to Finnish ampua (to shoot).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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amb (genitive ammu, partitive ambu)

  1. crossbow

Declension

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This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

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  • amb”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
  • amb”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
  • amb in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Occitan

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Alternative forms

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  • ab (Guardiol)
  • dab (Gascon)
  • damb (Gascon, Aranese)
  • ambé (Provençal)
  • embé (Provençal, Niçard)
  • emb (limousin)
  • ambo (vivaro-alpine)
  • 'mbo (east vivaro-alpine)

Etymology

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From Old Occitan ab, from Latin apud.

Pronunciation

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  • (before a vowel) IPA(key): /amb/, /am/ [ãm-]
  • (before a consonant) IPA(key): /ˈam.e/ [ˈãm.e]
  • Audio:(file)

Preposition

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amb

  1. with

References

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  • Pei, Mario A. 1948. Ab and the survival of the Latin genitive in Old Italian. Italica 25. 104–106.

Portuguese

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Noun

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amb m (plural ambs)

  1. (palynology) amb (outline of a spore or pollen grain)