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

Learned borrowing from Latin ambītus.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /amˈbitus/ [amˈbi.t̪ʊs]
• Rhymes: -itus
• Syllabification: am‧bi‧tus

ambitus (plural ambitus-ambitus)

1. (music) ambitus

• “ambitus”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From ambiō +‎ -tus (forming action nouns).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈam.bɪ.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈam.bi.tus]

ambitus m (genitive ambitūs); fourth declension

1. a going around, walking around
2. circuit
3. orbit, revolution, cycle
4. periphrasis, circumlocution
5. show, ostentation, vanity
6. an unlawful striving for posts of honor, canvassing, especially by bribery; (by extension) bribery
7. environment

Fourth-declension noun.

Perfect passive participle of ambiō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [amˈbiː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [amˈbiː.tus]

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.

• “ambītus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ambītus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ambītus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ambītus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ambitus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• "ambitus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• 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