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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Ambrosius.
Proper noun
Ambrosius (plural Ambrosiuses)
- 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.
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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀμβρόσιος (ambrósios, “immortal, divine”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Ambrosius m sg (genitive Ambrosiī or Ambrosī, feminine Ambrosia); second declension
- A masculine nomen equivalent to Ambrose, famously held by:
- 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.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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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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