ambages
Latin
noun
Definitions
- circuit roundabout way
- long story
- circumlocution, evasion, digression
- ambiguity
Etymology
Affix from Latin agō (make, do, I drive, act, drive, I do, impel, move, push, I act, lead).
Origin
Latin
agō
Gloss
make, do, I drive, act, drive, I do, impel, move, push, I act, lead
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
鉛
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- intransigent English
- *agīre Latin
- abigo Latin
- actito Latin
- adagium Latin
- adigo Latin
- agilis Latin
- agito Latin
- agmen Latin
- agīna Latin
- agō Latin
- ambigo Latin
- auriga Latin
- castigo Latin
- circumago Latin
- cogo Latin
- examen Latin
- exigo Latin
- indago Latin
- indiges Latin
- perago Latin
- prodigo Latin
- purgo Latin
- reago Latin
- redigo Latin
- subigo Latin
- transigo Latin
- ācta Latin
- agir Spanish, Castilian
- pródigo Spanish, Castilian
- agir Portuguese
- pródigo Portuguese
- agera Swedish
- ageren Middle Dutch
- trashëgoj Albanian
- agir Occitan
- *agō Proto-Italic
- ambacu Corsican
- ag·ir Franco-Provençal