different between ambrosia vs ambrosial

English

Etymology

From Latin ambrosia (“food of the gods”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (ambrosía, “immortality”), from ???????? (ámbrotos, “immortal”), from ?- (a-, “not”) + ?????? (brotós, “mortal”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /æm?b?o???/

Noun

ambrosia (countable and uncountable, plural ambrosias)

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) The food of the gods, thought to confer immortality.
2. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) 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 made of shredded coconuts and tropical fruits such as pineapples and oranges; some recipes also include ingredients such as marshmallow and cream.

Related terms

Derived terms

• ambrosia beetle
• ambrosia fungus
• ambrosial
• ambrosian

Translations

See also

• manna (noun)
• mead (noun)
• nectar (noun)

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “ambrosia”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• Saboraim

Finnish

Noun

ambrosia

1. ambrosia

Declension

Italian

Etymology

From Latin ambrosia, borrowed from Ancient Greek ???????? (ambrosí?, “immortality”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /am?br?.zja/
• Hyphenation: am?brò?sia

Noun

ambrosia f (plural ambrosie)

1. ambrosia (all senses)
2. (figuratively) honeydew

Related terms

• Ambrogio

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (ambrosía, “immortality”), from ???????? (ámbrotos, “immortal”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /am?bro.si.a/, [äm?b??s?iä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /am?bro.si.a/, [?m?b???s?i?]

Noun

ambrosia f (genitive ambrosiae); first declension

1. The food of the gods; ambrosia.
2. The unguent of the gods.
3. The plant, artemisia, of the genus Artemisia.
4. An antidote to a poison.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• ambrosiacus

Related terms

• ambrosius

Descendants

References

• ambrosia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ambrosia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ambrosia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• ambrosia in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• ambrosia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ambrosia in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Noun

ambrosia f (plural ambrosias)

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) ambrosia (food of gods or delicious foods)

English

Etymology

From ambrosia +? -al.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /am?b???z??l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /æm?b?o???l/

Adjective

ambrosial (comparative more ambrosial, superlative most ambrosial)

1. (Greek mythology) Pertaining to or worthy of the gods.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:

     And whilst he slept she [Venus] over him would spred / Her mantle, colour’d like the starry skyes, / And her soft arme lay underneath his hed, / And with ambrosiall kisses bathe his eyes [...]

2. Succulently sweet or fragrant; balmy, divine.
   • J. S. Byerley, You Taught Me Love

     By your cheek of vermil hue,
     By your lip’s ambrosial dew,
     By your soft and languid eye,
     By your swelling bosom’s sigh,
     You taught me love.

Synonyms

• ambrosian

Derived terms

• ambrosially

Translations