ambiguitas

Indonesian

Etymology

Affixed ambigu +‎ -itas, learned borrowing from Latin ambiguitās.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ambiɡuˈitas/
• Rhymes: -tas, -as, -s
• Hyphenation: am‧bi‧gu‧i‧tas

Noun

ambiguitas (plural ambiguitas-ambiguitas)

1. ambiguity:
   1. (countable) words or statements that are open to more than one interpretation, explanation or meaning, especially if that meaning cannot be determined from its context
   2. (uncountable) the state of being ambiguous

Alternative forms

• ambiguiti (Standard Malay)

Synonyms

• ketidaktentuan
• ketidakjelasan
• ketaksaan

Related terms

• ambigu

Further reading

• “ambiguitas”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts?

Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰíder.

Proto-Italic *amβi-

Latin ambi-

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti

Proto-Italic *agō

Latin agō

Latin ambig(ō)

Proto-Indo-European *-wós

Proto-Italic *-wos

Latin -uus

Latin ambiguus

Latin -tās

Latin ambiguitās

From ambiguus + -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [am.bɪˈɡu.ɪ.taːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [am.biˈɡuː.i.tas]

Noun

ambiguitās f (genitive ambiguitātis); third declension

1. ambiguity, uncertainty, equivocalness

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ambiguitās	ambiguitātēs
genitive	ambiguitātis	ambiguitātum
dative	ambiguitātī	ambiguitātibus
accusative	ambiguitātem	ambiguitātēs
ablative	ambiguitāte	ambiguitātibus
vocative	ambiguitās	ambiguitātēs

Descendants

• Asturian: ambigüedá
• Catalan: ambigüitat
• French: ambiguïté, ambiguité (pre-1835 spelling, archaic), ambigüité (post-1990 spelling)
  • → English: ambiguity
  • → Romanian: ambiguitate
• → German: Ambiguität
• Indonesian: ambiguitas
• Italian: ambiguità
  • → Maltese: ambigwità
• Portuguese: ambiguidade
• Spanish: ambigüedad
  • → Tagalog: ambigwidad

References

• “ambiguitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ambiguitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ambiguitas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.