# ambitus
## English
### Etymology

From Latin ambitus (“circuit, ostentation”). Doublet of ambit.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈæmbɪtəs/
* Hyphenation: am‧bi‧tus

### Noun

ambitus (plural ambituses or ambiti)
* (music) The range of a melody, especially those of ecclesiastical chants.
* (botany, zoology) The exterior edge or border of a thing, such as a leaf or shell.
* (historical, Roman antiquity) A canvassing for votes.

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* mitsuba

## Latin
### Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of ambiō.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /amˈbiː.tus/, [ämˈbiːt̪ʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /amˈbi.tus/, [ämˈbiːt̪us]

#### Participle

ambītus (feminine ambīta, neuter ambītum); first/second-declension participle
* skirted
* encircled, surrounded
* campaigned, canvassed
* sought, striven for

##### Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

### Etymology 2

Action noun of ambiō (“I go around, I encircle, I solicit”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈam.bi.tus/, [ˈämbɪt̪ʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈam.bi.tus/, [ˈämbit̪us]

#### Noun

ambitus m (genitive ambitūs); fourth declension
* circuit
* orbit, revolution, cycle
* periphrasis, circumlocution
* show, ostentation, vanity
* bribery
* environment

##### Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

##### Descendants

* Catalan: àmbit
* → Middle English: ambyte
** English: ambit
* Italian: ambito
* Portuguese: âmbito
* Spanish: ámbito
* Venetan: anbito

### Etymology 3

Perfect passive participle of ambiō.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈam.bi.tus/, [ˈämbɪt̪ʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈam.bi.tus/, [ˈämbit̪us]

#### Participle

ambitus (feminine ambita, neuter ambitum); first/second-declension participle
* having been walked around
* having been gone round
* having been visited in rotation
* having been inspected
* having been solicited
* having been canvassed
* having been circled
* having been embraced

##### Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

### Further reading

* “ambitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ambitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* ambitus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* ambitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. the period: ambitus, circuitus, comprehensio, continuatio (verborum, orationis), also simply periodus to accuse some one of illegal canvassing: accusare aliquem ambitus, de ambitu
* “ambitus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “ambitus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ambītus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /amˈbi.tus/
* Audio 1:(file)
* Audio 2:(file)
* Rhymes: -itus
* Syllabification: am‧bi‧tus

### Noun

ambitus m inan (indeclinable)
* (music) ambitus (range of a melody, especially those of ecclesiastical chants)

#### Related terms

* ambicjonalny
* ambicyjny
* ambitny
* ambicjonalnie
* ambicyjnie
* ambitnie
* ambicja
* ambicyjka
* ambit

### References

* ↑ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “ambitus”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
* ↑ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “ambitus”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
* ↑ “ambitus”, in Słownik gramatyczny języka polskiego [Grammatical Dictionary of Polish], 2022

### Further reading

* ambitus in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* ambitus in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French ambitus.

### Noun

ambitus n (plural ambitusuri)
* ambitus