ambos
See also: Ambos
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese ambos, from Latin ambō, ambōs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi (“round about, around”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈambos/ [ˈam.bos̺]
- Rhymes: -ambos
Derived terms
- Entrambosríos
- Trambosríos
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
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese ambos, from Latin ambōs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi (“round about, around”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈɐ̃.bus/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈɐ̃.buʃ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈɐ̃.bos/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈɐ̃.buʃ/
- Hyphenation: am‧bos
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈambos/ [ˈãm.bos]
Audio (Venezuela): (file) - 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)
- both
- 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.
Further reading
- “ambos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “abos”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 238
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