ambitus

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈæmbɪtəs/
• Hyphenation: am‧bi‧tus

ambitus (plural ambituses or ambiti)

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

• mitsuba

Perfect passive participle of ambiō.

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

ambītus (feminine ambīta, neuter ambītum); first/second-declension participle

1. skirted
2. encircled, surrounded
3. campaigned, canvassed
4. sought, striven for

First/second-declension adjective.

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

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

ambitus m (genitive ambitūs); fourth declension

1. circuit
2. orbit, revolution, cycle
3. periphrasis, circumlocution
4. show, ostentation, vanity
5. bribery
6. environment

Fourth-declension noun.

Perfect passive participle of ambiō.

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

ambitus (feminine ambita, neuter ambitum); first/second-declension participle

1. having been walked around
2. having been gone round
3. having been visited in rotation
4. having been inspected
5. having been solicited
6. having been canvassed
7. having been circled
8. having been embraced

First/second-declension adjective.

• “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^[1], 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

Learned borrowing from Latin ambītus.^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /amˈbi.tus/

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• Rhymes: -itus
• Syllabification: am‧bi‧tus

ambitus m inan (indeclinable)^[3]

1. (music) ambitus (range of a melody, especially those of ecclesiastical chants)

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

Borrowed from French ambitus.

ambitus n (plural ambitusuri)

1. ambitus