ambulatio Latin · revision 33019

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=116–27 BC, Varro|origins=ine-pro *h2elh2-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [am.bʊˈɫaː.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [am.buˈlat.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ambulātiō''' ''f'' (genitive ambulātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ambulō|-tiō|t1=to walk]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan explains that verb from [[m|la|ambi-|t=around]] and a present ⟨*ala-⟩, from [[itc-pro|*ala-|t=to wander]] and [[ine-pro|*h2elh2-|t=to wander]], cognate with [[grc|ἀλάομαι|tr=aláomai|t=to wander, roam]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Varro,^(de Vaan 2008) who describes a walk in the open air around the banks of a stream.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the act of walking, especially as exercise, as Celsus prescribes it, or a stroll taken for pleasure: Cicero keeps a subject for the walks of the Compitalia.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short note that it is a prose word, most frequent in Cicero, and the TLL that the poets avoid it except in one passage of Catullus.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) Quintilian uses it of the orator's walking about on the platform.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Concretely it is a place for walking, an open walk or promenade, or a covered one, a portico, usually near a house.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) English ''ambulation'' (1570s) is the act of walking about.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of an open walk.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of strolls and of a portico.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus of walking as exercise.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 1570s – English ''ambulation''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The act of [[m|en|walking]], walking as exercise; a [[m|en|stroll]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A place for walking: an open walk, [[m|en|promenade]]; a covered walk, [[m|en|portico]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[ambulātiuncula]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ambulō]]

+ * [[en|ambulation]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}