ambulante
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑ̃.by.lɑ̃t/
- Homophone: ambulantes
German
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Adjective
ambulante
- inflection of ambulant:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Italian
Etymology
From Latin ambulante, ambulantem, singular of ambulans (“traveling”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /am.buˈlan.te/
- Rhymes: -ante
- Hyphenation: am‧bu‧làn‧te
Latin
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin ambulantem, present participle of ambulāre (“to walk”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ɐ̃.buˈlɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ɐ̃.buˈlɐ̃.te/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ̃.buˈlɐ̃.tɨ/
- Hyphenation: am‧bu‧lan‧te
Adjective
ambulante m or f (plural ambulantes)
- walking (that is walking or able to walk)
- living (describes a person who is the embodiment of something)
- Ela é um livro ambulante. ― She is a living encyclopedia.
- travelling; itinerant (having no fixed location)
Noun
ambulante m or f by sense (plural ambulantes)
- peddler; hawker (street salesman)
- Synonyms: camelô, vendedor ambulante
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ambulantem. Cognate with English ambulant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ambuˈlante/ [ãm.buˈlãn̪.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -ante
- Syllabification: am‧bu‧lan‧te
Adjective
ambulante m or f (masculine and feminine plural ambulantes)
- travelling, ambulant
- un circo ambulante ― a traveling circus
- street
- un vendedor ambulante ― a street vendor
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “ambulante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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