# ambulo
## Catalan
### Verb

ambulo
* first-person singular present indicative of ambular

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈam.bu.lo/
* Rhymes: -ambulo
* Hyphenation: àm‧bu‧lo

### Verb

ambulo
* first-person singular present indicative of ambulare

## Latin
### Etymology

From ambi- +‎ *alō (“to wander”), from Proto-Italic *alō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elh₂- (“to wander”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ἄλη (álē, “wandering”), ἀλύω (alúō, “to wander in mind, to roam”), Umbrian amboltu, Latvian aluôt (“to roam”). See alucinor, as well as perhaps alacer.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈam.bu.loː/, [ˈämbʊɫ̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈam.bu.lo/, [ˈämbulo]

### Verb

ambulō (present infinitive ambulāre, perfect active ambulāvī, supine ambulātum); first conjugation
* to traverse, travel
* to walk
    Synonyms: deambulō, vādō, cammīnō, adeō, obeō, pergō, baetō, eō, gradior, cēdō, īnferō
    Cūr anas in hanc tabernam ambulāvit sī ūvās emere volēbat?Why did the duck walk into this shop if it wanted to buy grapes?

#### Conjugation

$^1$At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

#### Derived terms

* abambulō
* adambulō
* ambulācrum
* ambulātiō
* ambulātor
* ambulātrix
* ambulātūra
* ambulātus
* circumambulō
* coambulō
* deambulō
* inambulō
* obambulō
* perambulō
* praeambulō
* redambulō
* superambulō

#### Related terms

* ambiō
* ambulātilis
* ambulātiuncula
* ambulātōrius
* ambulātrīx

#### Descendants

* Aromanian: imnu / imn, imnari
* Catalan: amblar, ambular (borrowing)
* English: amble, ambulate, ambulance
* French: ambuler (borrowing), ambler (from Old Occitan)
* Istro-Romanian: omnu
* Italian: ambiare, ambulare (borrowing)
* Megleno-Romanian: amnu, amnare
* Occitan: amblar
* Old Occitan: amblar
* Portuguese: ambrar, ambular (borrowing)
* Romanian: umbla, umblare
* Spanish: amblar, ambular (borrowing)
Possibly through a Vulgar Latin *amnāre < *amlāre:
* Asturian: andar
* Catalan: anar (in part)
* Galician: andar
* Italian: andare (in part)
* Occitan: anar (in part)
* Portuguese: andar
* Sicilian: annari (in part)
* Spanish: andar
* Venetan: ndar (in part)
Possibly through a Vulgar Latin *alāre < *amlāre:
* Franco-Provençal: alar (in part)
* French: aller (in part)
* Friulian: lâ (in part)

### References

* Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 27
* “ambulo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ambulo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "ambulo", 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)
* ambulo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. a safe journey to you: bene ambula et redambula
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 38

## Maay
### Noun

ambulo
* sorghum

## Portuguese
### Verb

ambulo
* first-person singular present indicative of ambular

## Spanish
### Verb

ambulo
* first-person singular present indicative of ambular