ambedo
English
Etymology
From albedo, a physics term that describes the proportion of light reflected by a substance (from the Latin term for whiteness). Ambedo refers to the tendency both to reflect and to absorb. Coined by John Koenig in 2012, whose project, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, aims to come up with new words for emotions that currently lack words.
Noun
ambedo (uncountable)
- A kind of melancholic trance in which a person becomes completely absorbed in vivid sensory details.
- 2014 December 22, Tommy McMahon, Hero of the Day, Author House, →ISBN, page 71:
- Later that day, E.K. was sitting on the concrete porch that was the face of his house, basking in ambedo—he became vividly entranced by the seemingly meaningless things around him.
- 2021, Nishita Patil, MEET YOURSELF, SpotWrite Publications, page 12:
- The intense, nutty aroma of freshly brewed coffee was still lingering in the air of my modest den. With my back against my hulking bookshelf, I, now in ambedo, watched the rain drip-drop on the window pane. But the pattering of the rain against the glass door of the balcony was so intense and unsettling that for a brief moment, I experienced chrysalism.
- 2021 February 1, Priyanka Pareek, AMAIRA, Blue Rose Publishers, →ISBN, page 106:
- Ambedo, a melancholic trance.
Fight of the Elements.
It was quiet like never before. Kailash was moving towards the north. Oce was quiet, silently helping the movement. All the mountain children back in their ambedo.
- 2022 January 22, Wayne Kyle Spitzer, Riders on the Storm, Hobb's End Books, page 743:
- Ambedo. That's what he was feeling as he ran after Selena through the tall grass (having awakened with a knot on his head to find her fleeing) and tried not to think about the danger. Ambedo: that trance-like state in which one became became so absorbed by their surroundings—the wind massaging the green hills so that they undulated like sea anemones or the red-gold chiaroscuro sky lending palette and poetry to everything or the sun glaring over the horizon like a burning but indifferent god—that they forgot what they were doing or even why they were there.
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Latin
Etymology
From ambi- + edō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈam.be.doː/, [ˈämbɛd̪oː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈam.be.do/, [ˈämbed̪o]
Verb
ambedō (present infinitive ambedere, perfect active ambēdī, supine ambēsum); third conjugation
- I eat or gnaw around; erode.
- (transferred) I waste; consume.
Conjugation
Conjugation of ambedō (third conjugation) | |||||||
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indicative | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | ambedō | ambedis | ambedit | ambedimus | ambeditis | ambedunt |
imperfect | ambedēbam | ambedēbās | ambedēbat | ambedēbāmus | ambedēbātis | ambedēbant | |
future | ambedam | ambedēs | ambedet | ambedēmus | ambedētis | ambedent | |
perfect | ambēdī | ambēdistī | ambēdit | ambēdimus | ambēdistis | ambēdērunt, ambēdēre | |
pluperfect | ambēderam | ambēderās | ambēderat | ambēderāmus | ambēderātis | ambēderant | |
future perfect | ambēderō | ambēderis | ambēderit | ambēderimus | ambēderitis | ambēderint | |
passive | present | ambedor | ambederis, ambedere | ambeditur | ambedimur | ambediminī | ambeduntur |
imperfect | ambedēbar | ambedēbāris, ambedēbāre | ambedēbātur | ambedēbāmur | ambedēbāminī | ambedēbantur | |
future | ambedar | ambedēris, ambedēre | ambedētur | ambedēmur | ambedēminī | ambedentur | |
perfect | ambēsus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
pluperfect | ambēsus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
future perfect | ambēsus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | ambedam | ambedās | ambedat | ambedāmus | ambedātis | ambedant |
imperfect | ambederem | ambederēs | ambederet | ambederēmus | ambederētis | ambederent | |
perfect | ambēderim | ambēderīs | ambēderit | ambēderīmus | ambēderītis | ambēderint | |
pluperfect | ambēdissem | ambēdissēs | ambēdisset | ambēdissēmus | ambēdissētis | ambēdissent | |
passive | present | ambedar | ambedāris, ambedāre | ambedātur | ambedāmur | ambedāminī | ambedantur |
imperfect | ambederer | ambederēris, ambederēre | ambederētur | ambederēmur | ambederēminī | ambederentur | |
perfect | ambēsus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
pluperfect | ambēsus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
imperative | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | — | ambede | — | — | ambedite | — |
future | — | ambeditō | ambeditō | — | ambeditōte | ambeduntō | |
passive | present | — | ambedere | — | — | ambediminī | — |
future | — | ambeditor | ambeditor | — | — | ambeduntor | |
non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
infinitives | ambedere | ambēdisse | ambēsūrum esse | ambedī | ambēsum esse | ambēsum īrī | |
participles | ambedēns | — | ambēsūrus | — | ambēsus | ambedendus, ambedundus | |
verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
ambedendī | ambedendō | ambedendum | ambedendō | ambēsum | ambēsū |
Derived terms
- ambestrīx
- ambēsus
References
- “ambedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ambedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ambedo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette