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語源

From Late 中期英語 ambyte, borrowed from Latin ambitus (“circuit; circumference, perimeter; area within a perimeter; ground around a building; cycle, orbit, revolution”) (compare Late Latin ambitus (“neighbourhood; wall of a castle, monastery, or town; cloister; parish boundary”)), from ambīre + -tus (suffix forming verbal nouns from verbs). Ambīre is the present active infinitive of ambiō (“to go around, to skirt; to encircle, surround”), from ambi- (“prefix meaning ‘both, on both sides’”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- (“front; face; forehead”)) + eō (“to go, move”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- (“to go”)). The English word is a doublet of ambitus.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈæmbɪt/
• 韻: -æmbɪt
• ハイフネーション: am‧bit

名詞

ambit (plural ambits)

1. (by extension)
   1. The extent of actions, thoughts, or the meaning of words, etc.
   2. The area or sphere of control and influence of something.
      • 1913, Gilbert Parker, “‘The Alpine Fellow’”, in The Judgment House […], uniform edition, Toronto, Ont.: The Copp, Clark Co., →OCLC, book IV, pages 412–413:

        He had invited Destiny to sweep him up in her reaping, by placing himself in the ambit of her scythe; but the sharp reaping-hook had passed him by.

2. (archaic) The boundary around a building, town, region, etc.
3. (archaic, rare) The circumference of something circular; also, an arc; a circuit, an orbit.
4. (obsolete) Chiefly in the plural form ambits: the open space surrounding a building, town, etc.; the grounds or precincts of a place.

   Synonym: (of a house) curtilage

派生語

• ambit claim

関連する語

• ambitus

参照

Further reading

• ambit (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• BTAIM, imbat, timba