Ancient Greek

Adjective

ἀμβροσία • ‎(ambrosía)

1. feminine nominative dual of ἀμβρόσιος ‎(ambrósios)
2. feminine accusative dual of ἀμβρόσιος ‎(ambrósios)
3. feminine vocative dual of ἀμβρόσιος ‎(ambrósios)
4. neuter nominative plural of ἀμβρόσιος ‎(ambrósios)
5. neuter nominative plural of ἀμβρόσιος ‎(ambrósios)
6. neuter nominative plural of ἀμβρόσιος ‎(ambrósios)

Etymology 2

• From ἄμβροτος ‎(ámbrotos, “immortal”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ ‎(-íā, abstract noun suffix). The τ ‎(t) changed to σ ‎(s) by palatalization.
• or perhaps from Semitic stem MBR.

Noun

ἀμβροσία • ‎(ambrosía) f ‎(genitive ἀμβροσίας); first declension

1. ambrosia
2. elixir of life
3. food, perfume, unguent of the gods
4. immortality
5. simulated divine ambrosia used in religious rites
6. name of some medicines
7. a festival of Bacchus

Declension

Descendants

• Russian: амбро́зия f ‎(ambrózija)

See also

• νέκταρ ‎(néktar)

References

• ἀμβροσία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «ἀμβροσία» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἀμβροσία» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• ἀμβροσία in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • ambrosia idem, page 27.