ambulatorius

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

ambŭlātōrĭus, a, um, adj. [ambulator], that moves about (rare; never in Cic.); hence,

I Of machines which can be moved to and fro. movable : praeterea alias (so. turres) ambulatorias totidem tabulatorum confixerant, movable towers with an equal number of stories , Auct. B. Alex. 2 Moeb.; Vitr. 10, 19; Plin. 21, 14, 47, § 80.—Hence, trop., of the will, wavering , fickle , changeable : voluntas, Dig. 24, 1, 32; and of other things: actio, a cause that passes from one to another , Cod. Just. 6, 2, 22.—*

II Suitable for walking in : porticus, Dig. 8, 5, 8.