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語源

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. from a tribe's name Ambrones? not related to Spanish hambron

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈam.brɔ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈam.bro]

名詞

ambro m (genitive ambronis); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin) a glutton, one who eats much or too much.
2. (Medieval Latin, figuratively) an excessively ferocious or barbarous human being.
   • 12th century, Geoffrey of Monmouth, De Gestis Britonum V.394-395:

     Quod cum abnegauissent puellae, irruerunt in eas ambrones maximamque partem sine mora trucidaverunt.

     When the maiden had refused, these ferocious men immediately rushed in and killed a great part of them.

語形変化

Third-declension noun.