different between ambulatory vs ambulate

English

Etymology

Latin ambulatorius

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?am.bj?.l??t?.?i/
• Hyphenation: am?bu?la?to?ry

Adjective

ambulatory (comparative more ambulatory, superlative most ambulatory)

1. Of, relating to, or adapted to walking

   ambulatory exercise

   • 1642, Henry Wotton, A Short View of the Life and Death of George Villiers

     The princess of whom his majesty […] had an ambulatory view in his travels.

2. (comparable, medicine) Able to walk about and not bedridden.

   an ambulatory patient

3. (medicine) Performed on or involving an ambulatory patient or an outpatient.

   an ambulatory electrocardiogram

   ambulatory medical care

4. Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable.

   an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places

   • a. 1667, Jeremy Taylor, Clerus Domini, or, A discourse of the divine institution, necessity, sacredness, and separation of the office ministerial together with the nature and manner of its power and operation

     The priesthood […] before, was very ambulatory, and dispensed into all families

5. (law) Not yet legally fixed or settled; alterable.

   The dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.

Translations

Noun

ambulatory (plural ambulatories)

1. The round walkway encircling the altar in many cathedrals.
2. Any part of a building intended for walking in; a corridor.

Translations

English

Etymology

From Latin ambulatus, past participle of ambul? (“I walk, go about”). Doublet of amble.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æmbj?le?t/

Verb

ambulate (third-person singular simple present ambulates, present participle ambulating, simple past and past participle ambulated)

1. (intransitive) To walk; to relocate oneself under the power of one's own legs.

   Peter slowly ambulated to the bathroom, favoring his strained knee.

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:walk

Translations

Related terms

• ambi-
• amble
• ambulance
• ambulant
• ambulation
• ambulator
• ambulatory
• somnambulate
• funambulate
• circumambulate

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

ambul?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ambul?

Participle

ambul?te

1. vocative masculine singular of ambul?tus