English Explanatory Dictionary

ambrosia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The food of the gods, thought to confer immortality.
  2. The anointing-oil of the gods.
  3. Any food with an especially delicious flavour or fragrance.
  4. Anything delightfully sweet and pleasing.
  5. An annual herb historically used medicinally and in cooking, Dysphania botrys.
  6. A mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae.
  7. Any fungus of a number of species that insects such as ambrosia beetles carry as symbionts, "farming" them on poor-quality food such as wood, where they grow, providing food for the insect.
  8. A dessert originating in the Southern United States made of shredded coconuts and tropical fruits such as pineapples and oranges; some recipes also include ingredients such as marshmallow and cream.
  9. A plant of the genus Ambrosia.

Pronunciation

/æmˈbɹoʊʒə/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ambrosia.wav

Word forms

ambrosia ambrosias ambrosiae

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Indo-European *mer- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *mr̥tós Proto-Indo-European *n̥mr̥tós Proto-Hellenic *ə́mrətos Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́μβροτος (ắmbrotos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek ᾰ̓μβροσῐ́ᾱ (ămbrosĭ́ā)der. Latin ambrosialbor. English ambrosia From Latin ambrosia (“food of the gods”), from Ancient Greek ἀμβροσία (ambrosía, “immortality”), from ἄμβροτος (ámbrotos, “immortal”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + βροτός (brotós, “mortal”).

Synonyms

ragweed

Related words

manna mead nectar

Derived words

ambrosia beetle ambrosiac ambrosia fungus ambrosial ambrosian ambrosiate

Translations

Armenian: ամբրոսիա Armenian: ամբրոս Old Armenian: անուշակ կերակուր Bulgarian: амбро́зия Burmese: နတ်သုဓာ Catalan: ambrosia Chinese Mandarin: 神食 Chinese Mandarin: 神的食物 Danish: ambrosia Dutch: ambrozijn Dutch: godenbrood Esperanto: ambrozio Estonian: ambroosia Finnish: ambrosia French: ambroisie German: Ambrosia German: Götterspeise Greek: αμβροσία Ancient Greek: ἀμβροσία Hebrew: אמברוסיה Irish: ambróise Italian: ambrosia Japanese: アムブロシア Latin: ambrosia Lithuanian: ambrozija Malay: ambrosia Norwegian Bokmål: ambrosia Norwegian Nynorsk: ambrosia Polish: ambrozja Portuguese: ambrosia Russian: амбро́зия Serbo-Croatian: амброзија Serbo-Croatian: ambrozija Slovene: ambrozija Spanish: ambrosía Swedish: ambrosia Tagalog: ambrosya Tibetan: བདུད་རྩི Volapük: brosiam
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