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Latin
Etymology
From ambig(ō) (“wander; waver, hesitate”) + -uus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
ambiguus (feminine ambigua, neuter ambiguum, adverb ambiguē); first/second-declension adjective
- going two ways, hither and thither, moving from side-to-side
- hybrid
- changing, fluctuating, wavering
- uncertain, doubtful, undecided, indecisive
- (of discourse) obscure, ambiguous
- (figuratively) wavering, not to be relied on, untrustworthy, unreliable, treacherous
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “ambĭgŭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ambiguus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ambiguus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- obsolete, ambiguous expressions: prisca, obsoleta (opp. usitata), ambigua verba