different between ambulant vs ambulance

English

Etymology

Latin ambulans, present participle of ambulare (“to walk”).

Adjective

ambulant (not comparable)

1. Able to walk.
2. Designed for use by somebody with a disability that impairs, but does not prevent, walking.

   an ambulant toilet

Translations

Noun

ambulant (plural ambulants)

1. A patient who is able to walk.

Further reading

• ambulant at OneLook Dictionary Search

Catalan

Adjective

ambulant (masculine and feminine plural ambulants)

1. travelling; itinerant (having no fixed location)
2. ambulant; walking; able to walk

French

Etymology

From Latin ambulant

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.by.l??/
• Homophone: ambulants

Adjective

ambulant (feminine singular ambulante, masculine plural ambulants, feminine plural ambulantes)

1. walking, strolling

Verb

ambulant

1. present participle of ambuler

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ambu?lant/
• Rhymes: -ant
• Hyphenation: am?bu?lant

Adjective

ambulant (not comparable)

1. ambulant; outpatient (attributive noun)

Declension

Antonyms

• stationär

Related terms

• Ambulanz

Further reading

• “ambulant” in Duden online

Latin

Verb

ambulant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of ambul?

Romanian

Etymology

From French ambulant, from Latin ambulans.

Adjective

ambulant m or n (feminine singular ambulant?, masculine plural ambulan?i, feminine and neuter plural ambulante)

1. peripatetic

Declension

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French ambulance, from (hôpital) ambulant (“walking, shifting (hospital)”), from Latin ambul? (“I walk, I go about”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æm.bj?.l?ns/
• (AAVE, also) IPA^(key): /?æm.bj??læns/
• Hyphenation: am?bu?lance

Noun

ambulance (plural ambulances)

1. An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital. [1854]
2. (military) A mobile field hospital. [1798]
3. (obsolete, US) A prairie wagon. [Late 19c.]

Derived terms

Related terms

• ambulatory
• ambulant

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ????????? (embulens)

Translations

Verb

ambulance (third-person singular simple present ambulances, present participle ambulancing, simple past and past participle ambulanced)

1. (transitive) To transport by ambulance.

Further reading

• ambulance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ambulance in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

References

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ambulant?s?]

Noun

ambulance f

1. ambulance
2. hospital ward or department that offers outpatient care

Declension

Synonyms

• (ambulance): sanitka

Related terms

• ambulantní
• ambulantn?

Further reading

• ambulance in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• ambulance in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French ambulance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m.by?l?n.s?/
• Hyphenation: am?bu?lan?ce
• Rhymes: -?ns?

Noun

ambulance f (plural ambulances)

1. ambulance
   • 1975, Anke de Vries, Het geheim van Mories Besjoer, Lemniscaat, 59.

     Ze beschrijven uitvoerig hoe Maurice te hulp schoot, toen hij gegil hoorde, hoe hij iemand had zien wegvluchten uit de kamer en dat hij het was geweest, die een ambulance had gebeld.

   • 1979, Rubberen Robbie, "De ambulance", Zuipen (CD).

     Twee, drie, weken geleden kwam de ambulance / Bij onze buurman hier net om de hoek

Synonyms

• ziekenauto
• ziekenwagen

Descendants

• Afrikaans: ambulans
• ? Indonesian: ambulans

French

Etymology

From Latin ambulans, present participle of ambul? (“I walk, I go about”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.by.l??s/
• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

ambulance f (plural ambulances)

1. ambulance

Descendants

• ? Dutch: ambulance (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “ambulance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English ambulance and French ambulance.

Noun

ambulance f (plural ambulances)

1. (Jersey) ambulance