ambulanceとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from French ambulance, from (hôpital) ambulant (“walking, shifting (hospital)”), from Latin ambulō (“I walk, I go about”).^[1]

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈæm.bjə.ləns/
• (AAVE, also) IPA^(key): /ˈæm.bjəˌlæns/
• ハイフネーション: am‧bu‧lance

名詞

ambulance (複数形 ambulances)

1. An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital. [1854^[1]]
2. (military) A mobile field hospital. [1798^[1]]
3. (obsolete, US) A prairie wagon. [Late 19c.^[1]]

派生語

関連する語

• ambulatory
• ambulant

派生した語

• → Hindi: एम्बुलेंस (embulens)

動詞

ambulance (三人称単数 現在形 ambulances, 現在分詞 ambulancing, 過去形および過去分詞形 ambulanced)

1. (transitive) To transport by ambulance.
   • 1918, Western Surgical Association: Transactions, volume 27, page 66:

     Ambulancing patients with acute obstruction over cobble and rails should not be tolerated; better render the necessary service where the patient is found.

Further reading

• ambulance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ambulance in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.

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