ambage
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Middle English ambages, from French ambage as well as its etymon Latin ambāgēs (“a roundabout or circuitous path”).[1][2]
Noun[edit]
ambage (countable and uncountable, plural ambages)
- (literary, often in the plural) Evasive or ambiguous language; circumlocution.
- Puttenham, Art of Poesie
- without any long studie or tedious ambage
- 1607, Decker, Whore of Babylon:
- Umh! y' are full of ambage.
- Puttenham, Art of Poesie
- (literary, often in the plural) An indirect or obscure path.
References[edit]
- ^ “ambage”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^ “ambage, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Latin ambāgēs.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ambage m (plural ambages)
- (chiefly in the plural) ambage
- sans ambages ― straight from the shoulder, bluntly
Further reading[edit]
- “ambage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ambage f (plural ambagi)
Further reading[edit]
- ambage in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin[edit]
Noun[edit]
ambāge
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