ambiguitas

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

ambĭgŭĭtas, ātis, f. [ambiguus],

equivocalness , double sense , ambiguity , uncertainty : sed nobis ambiguitas nominis, Cic. Inv. 1, 40: verbi, Liv. 41, 18: in ambiguitatem incidere, Sen. Ep. 9; so Quint. 5, 10, 106; 6, 3, 47; 7, 9, 3: omne quod (vir) loquitur, sine ambiguitate venit, cometh to pass without uncertainty , surely , * Vulg. 1 Reg. 9, 6 al.—In plur.: relictis ambiguitatibus, Sen. Ep. 108; Quint. 1, 10, 5.

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