ambitio

Learned borrowing from Latin ambitiō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑmbitio/, [ˈɑ̝mbiˌt̪io̞]
• Rhymes: -io
• Syllabification^(key): am‧bi‧ti‧o

ambitio

1. ambition

   Synonyms: kunnianhimo, kunnianhimoisuus

• “ambitio”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

From ambiō (“go around”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /amˈbi.ti.oː/, [ämˈbɪt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /amˈbit.t͡si.o/, [ämˈbit̪ː͡s̪io]

ambitiō f (genitive ambitiōnis); third declension

1. A going around or about; that which surrounds.
2. A desire for one's favor or good will; excessive desire to please, flattery, adulation.
3. A desire for honor, popularity, power or display; ambition; vanity.
4. Partiality, favouritism.
5. A great exertion.
6. (in the time of the Republic) The going about of candidates for office in Rome, and the soliciting of citizens for their vote; candidature; canvassing.

Third-declension noun.

• ambitiōsus

• abitiō
• circumitiō
• cōitiō
• contritiō
• interitiō
• praeteritiō
• prōditiō
• rēditiō
• sēditiō
• transitiō

• “ambitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ambitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ambitio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• ambitio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.