ambitio.
ambition; desire for/currying favor/popularity, flattery; vote canvassing; pomp;
Meaning & usage
A going around or about; that which surrounds.
A desire for one's favor or good will; excessive desire to please, flattery, adulation.
A desire for honor, popularity, power or display; ambition; vanity.
Partiality, favouritism.
A great exertion.
The going about of candidates for office in Rome, and the soliciting of citizens for their vote; candidature; canvassing.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts? Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰíder. Proto-Italic *amβi- Latin ambi- Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- Proto-Indo-European *h₁éyti Proto-Italic *ejō Proto-Italic *eō Latin eō Latin ambiō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin ambitiō From ambiō (“go around”) + -tiō. Compare ambitus.
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