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Latin
Etymology
From ad- (“near, at; towards, to”) + ambulō (“walk; traverse”).
Pronunciation
Verb
adambulō (present infinitive adambulāre, perfect active adambulāvī); first conjugation, no passive, no supine stem
- (before or after ad or with dative) to walk about, at, before, beside or near something
c. 190 BCE,
Plautus,
Bacchides 4.5.8:
- adambulabo ad ostium ut quando exeat / extemplo advenienti ei tabellas dem in manum
- I'll walk before the door, that when he comes out, at once as he comes up, I may put the letters in his hand.
Conjugation
References
- “adambulo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- adambulo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.