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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /am.beˈduj/
- Rhymes: -uj
- Hyphenation: am‧be‧dùi
Determiner
ambedui (invariable)
- (literary, obsolete) Alternative form of ambedue
1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 67–69; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:[…] Non omo, omo già fui,
e li parenti miei furon lombardi,
mantoani per patrïa ambedui.- Not man. I once was a man, and my parents were Lombards, both of Mantuan origin.
- (literally, “Not man, man I once was, and my parents were Lombard, Mantuan by motherland both.”)
Pronoun
ambedui (invariable)
- (literary, obsolete) Alternative form of ambedue
Further reading
- ambedui in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Old French
Determiner
ambedui
- nominative singular of ambedeus
Old Occitan
Determiner
ambedui
- both