ambos

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English

Noun

ambos

  1. plural of ambo

Anagrams

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese ambos, from Latin ambō, ambōs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi (“round about, around”).

Pronunciation

Pronoun

ambos m pl (feminine ambas)

  1. both

Derived terms

References

  • “ambos” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “ambos” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “ambos” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “ambos” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “ambos” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Latin

Noun

ambōs

  1. accusative masculine of ambō

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese ambos, from Latin ambōs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi (“round about, around”).

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: am‧bos

Determiner

ambos m pl (feminine plural ambas)

  1. both

Pronoun

ambos m pl (feminine plural ambas)

  1. both

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin ambō, ambōs.

Pronunciation

Adjective

ambos m pl (feminine plural ambas)

  1. both
    Synonym: sos duos, sas duas

Numeral

ambos

  1. both

Pronoun

ambos

  1. both

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈambos/
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  • Rhymes: -ambos
  • Syllabification: am‧bos

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin ambōs m pl. Old Spanish consistently had amos, representing the inherited form, while ambos existed in neighbouring Old Leonese. Later, Latin influence helped ambos spread into Spanish as well, where it displaced the form without /b/.

Adjective

ambos m pl (feminine plural ambas)

  1. both
    Synonym: los dos, las dos
    • 2009 January 10, C. De Carlos, “Kirchner comienza el proceso de expropiación de Aerolíneas a Marsans”, in ABC.es‎:
      Las negociaciones entre el Gobierno y la empresa se rompieron a mediados de diciembre, después de que el Ejecutivo argentino rechazara cumplir un acuerdo, suscrito en julio, que le obligaba a buscar un tasador independiente de la compañía si ambas partes no coincidían, como así fue, en sus respectivas auditorías.
      Negotiations between the government and the company broke down in mid-December, after the Argentine executive rejected an agreement signed in July, which obliged him to seek an independent company if both sides differed, as they did, in their respective audits.

Pronoun

ambos

  1. both

Etymology 2

Noun

ambos m pl

  1. plural of ambo

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