ambrosia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Indo-European *mer-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *mr̥tós
Proto-Indo-European *n̥mr̥tós
Proto-Hellenic *ə́mrətos
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́μβροτος (ắmbrotos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓μβροσῐ́ᾱ (ămbrosĭ́ā)der.
Latin ambrosialbor.
English ambrosia
From Latin ambrosia (“food of the gods”), from Ancient Greek ἀμβροσία (ambrosía, “immortality”), from ἄμβροτος (ámbrotos, “immortal”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + βροτός (brotós, “mortal”).
Base: βροτός
Affixes: ἀ-
Inflected forms:
form: ambrosias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ambrosiae
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
Senses:
gloss: The food of the gods, thought to confer immortality.
pos: noun
tags: Greek
Roman
countable
uncountable
examples: He had a most intense admiration of female loveliness, and looked upon woman as a kind of super-angelic being, whose food should be the ambrosiæ and nectar of the gods, and whose garments the spotless white of vestal purity.
gloss: The anointing-oil of the gods.
pos: noun
tags: Greek
Roman
countable
uncountable
gloss: Any food with an especially delicious flavour or fragrance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Anything delightfully sweet and pleasing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A favorite. It’s refreshing now and will evolve into golden ambrosia with age. […] The dessert wines of the Loire Valley and AJsace also deserve recognition. From the Anjou area of the Loire come the ambrosiae of Savennières, Bonnezeaux, and Quarts de Chaume.
gloss: An annual herb historically used medicinally and in cooking, Dysphania botrys.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any fungus of a number of species that insects such as ambrosia beetles carry as symbionts, "farming" them on poor-quality food such as wood, where they grow, providing food for the insect.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A dessert originating in the Southern United States made of shredded coconuts and tropical fruits such as pineapples and oranges; some recipes also include ingredients such as marshmallow and cream.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A plant of the genus Ambrosia.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Their disease does not appear before August. At this time, throughout the entire United States one could say, not only in every field, in every meadow and in every forest, but even in the largest cities, there blooms the ambrosiæ, which are commonly known as ragweed; […]
Fig. 1.—Spiculated pollens of ragweeds (ambrosias) low in protein. […] In the cocklebur (Xanthium americanum) and the rough wild elder (Iva ciliata), the spicules are shorter, being 0.7 and 0.5 microns, and the reaction is proportionately less active than with the ragweeds (ambrosias). […] While the grass pollens have so light a coat that they are frequently crushed in the ordinary process of mounting, the ragweed (ambrosias) pollen grains resist pressure between two glass slides carried to the point of crushing the glass.
Dr. William Scheppergrell,^([sic – meaning Scheppegrell]) in Public Health Reports, states that the common and giant ragweeds (ambrosias), which are the principal causes of hay fever in the Eastern States, do not grow so abundantly in the West, and that the pollens of other plants, notably the wormwoods (artemisias), are the exciting causes of hay fever in the Pacific and Mountain States. […] [quoting Scheppegrell] The most important hay-fever weeds of the Pacific and Mountain States, and which give the most severe reaction, are the wormwoods (artemisias). While their pollen is not produced in the same profusion as that of the ragweeds (ambrosias), they give a marked hay-fever reaction which in some species is five times as active as that of the ragweed (ambrosia).
Section G: The Collector’s corner, Mrs. J. R. Cowan, blue, for her ambrosiae.
Once again there can be heard throughout the eastern part of the country the stacatto^([sic]) sneezing, the hacking cough and the stuffy head of the hay fever patient, for ragweed season is upon us. As it does each year, about the fifteenth of August, plants of the group called ambrosiae spread their pollens to the wind and the misery begins.
The ambrosias [ragweeds] are not only very harmful competitors of plants, but they also are dangerous vectors of allergic illnesses of man.
To the west, perennial ragweed (A. psilostachya) and additional species including perennial slender ragweed (A. confertiflora) and annual bur ragweed (A. acanthocarpa) are prominent in the Great Plains and Great Basin areas, while canyon ragweed (A. ambrosioides), rabbit bush (A. deltoidea), and burroweed (A. dumosa) are ragweeds of southwestern deserts. Several of these species previously were classified in the genus Franseria (as “false ragweeds”); however, they appear to be valid ambrosias with respect to both form and pollen allergens.
Sunflowers grace most of the continental United States with a lush, vibrant beauty. But not the ambrosiae. These plants—also called western ragweed—populate the sprawling southwestern flatlands of the Mojave, the Sonoran, and the Great Basin deserts.
Related words: manna
mead
nectar
Derived words: ambrosia beetle
ambrosiac
ambrosia fungus
ambrosial
ambrosian
ambrosiate
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: ամբրոսիա
roman: ambrosia
lang: Armenian
word: ամբրոս
roman: ambros
lang: Old Armenian
word: անուշակ կերակուր
roman: anušak kerakur
lang: Bulgarian
word: амбро́зия
roman: ambrózija
lang: Burmese
word: နတ်သုဓာ
roman: natsu.dha
lang: Catalan
word: ambrosia
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 神食
roman: shénshí
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 神的食物
roman: shén de shíwù
lang: Danish
word: ambrosia
lang: Dutch
word: ambrozijn
lang: Dutch
word: godenbrood
lang: Esperanto
word: ambrozio
lang: Estonian
word: ambroosia
lang: Finnish
word: ambrosia
lang: French
word: ambroisie
lang: German
word: Ambrosia
lang: German
word: Götterspeise
lang: Greek
word: αμβροσία
roman: amvrosía
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἀμβροσία
roman: ambrosía
lang: Hebrew
word: אמברוסיה
lang: Irish
word: ambróise
lang: Italian
word: ambrosia
lang: Japanese
word: アムブロシア
roman: amuburoshia
lang: Latin
word: ambrosia
lang: Lithuanian
word: ambrozija
lang: Malay
word: ambrosia
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: ambrosia
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: ambrosia
lang: Polish
word: ambrozja
lang: Portuguese
word: ambrosia
lang: Russian
word: амбро́зия
roman: ambrózija
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: амброзија
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ambrozija
lang: Slovene
word: ambrozija
lang: Spanish
word: ambrosía
lang: Swedish
word: ambrosia
lang: Tagalog
word: ambrosya
lang: Tibetan
word: བདུད་རྩི
roman: bdud rtsi
lang: Volapük
word: brosiam