English
amburbium
Amburbium comes from Latin amburbium ‘an expiatory procession round the city of Rome…’, and goes back to urbs.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEurbs‘a city, walled town’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEamburbium‘an expiatory procession round the city of Rome at which sacrifices were offered’
- Englishtodaysame form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEurbs‘a city, walled town’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEamburbium‘an expiatory procession round the city of Rome at which sacrifices were offered’
- Englishtodaysame form
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- ‘enclosure, fence, belt’
hangar, girth, girdle, jardin, gord, gird, 9 more
through Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰos ‘hedge, fence’
through Latin urbs ‘a city, walled town’
Today it means
noun An ancient expiatory procession round the city of Rome at which sacrifices were offered.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin urbs / amburbium