I.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.
ambĭgŭĭtas , ātis, f. ambiguus,
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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