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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈam.bi.oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈam.bi.o]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''ambiō''' (present infinitive ambīre, perfect active ambiī or ambīvī, supine ambītum); fourth conjugation^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[ambi-|t=around]] and [[eō]] “to go”, but is conjugated regularly in the fourth conjugation.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's first citations are from Plautus, of canvassing for something.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to go round, visit in rotation, and in politics to canvass, solicit votes, as in Cicero, to go round seeking support, as in Terence, and to canvass for an office, as in Plautus, or strive for something.^(OLD 2012) It meant to go round, skirt, as Ovid's charioteer going round the foundations of Sicily, to orbit, to throng round, to surround, encircle, to embrace, and of rivers and peoples to lie round.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It also meant to comprehend, include, and to cover, clothe.^(OLD 2012) Döderlein contrasts [[circumeō]], going round a boundary, with ''ambīre'', going hither and thither.^(Döderlein 1874)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to go around, canvass, strive for.^(Stelten 1995) [[en|ambition]] comes from its noun ''ambitiō'' “a going round to solicit votes” in the mid-14th century, and [[en|ambient]] from its participle in the 1590s.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of canvassing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of soliciting support.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of political canvassing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * mid-14th century – English ''ambition'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To go round, visit in turn.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To [[m|en|canvass]], solicit (votes, support).^(OLD 2012)
+ # To strive for.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To go round; to orbit.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To surround, encircle; to embrace.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To include; to cover.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[ambitiō]]
+ * [[ambitor]]
+ * [[ambitus]]
+ * [[exambio]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[ambulō]]
+ * [[eō]]
+ * [[en|ambition]]
+ * [[en|ambient]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}