Ambrosius

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See also: ambrosius

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Ambrosius.

Proper noun

Ambrosius (plural Ambrosiuses)

  1. A surname from German.

Statistics

  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Ambrosius is the 39486th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 557 individuals. Ambrosius is most common among White (95.15%) individuals.

Further reading

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀμβρόσιος (ambrósios, “immortal, divine”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Ambrosius m sg (genitive Ambrosiī or Ambrosī, feminine Ambrosia); second declension

  1. A masculine nomen equivalent to Ambrose, famously held by:
    1. Aurelius Ambrosius (AD circa 340–397), a celebrated Church Doctor and Father, consular prefect of Aemilia and Liguria from AD 372 and bishop of Milan AD 374–397

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Ambrosius
Genitive Ambrosiī
Ambrosī1
Dative Ambrosiō
Accusative Ambrosium
Ablative Ambrosiō
Vocative Ambrosī

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • “Ambrŏsĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • 2 Ambrŏsĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.: “112/2”

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