ambiguitas
Indonesian
    
    Etymology
    
Affixed ambigu + -itas, learned borrowing from Latin ambiguitās.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ambiɡuˈitas/
- Rhymes: -tas, -as, -s
- Hyphenation: am‧bi‧gu‧i‧tas
Noun
    
ambiguitas (plural ambiguitas-ambiguitas, first-person possessive ambiguitasku, second-person possessive ambiguitasmu, third-person possessive ambiguitasnya)
- ambiguity:
- (countable) words or statements that are open to more than one interpretation, explanation or meaning, especially if that meaning cannot be determined from its context.
- (uncountable) the state of being ambiguous.
 
Alternative forms
    
- ambiguiti (Standard Malay)
Synonyms
    
- ketidaktentuan
- ketidakjelasan
- ketaksaan
Related terms
    
Further reading
    
- “ambiguitas” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Latin
    
    
Pronunciation
    
(Classical) IPA(key): /am.biˈɡu.i.taːs/, [ämbɪˈɡuɪt̪äːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /am.biˈɡu.i.tas/, [ämbiˈɡuːit̪äs]
Declension
    
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural | 
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ambiguitās | ambiguitātēs | 
| Genitive | ambiguitātis | ambiguitātum | 
| Dative | ambiguitātī | ambiguitātibus | 
| Accusative | ambiguitātem | ambiguitātēs | 
| Ablative | ambiguitāte | ambiguitātibus | 
| Vocative | ambiguitās | ambiguitātēs | 
Descendants
    
- Catalan: ambigüitat
- French: ambiguïté
- English: ambiguity
- Romanian: ambiguitate
 
- German: Ambiguität
- Indonesian: ambiguitas
- Italian: ambiguità
- Portuguese: ambiguidade
- Spanish: ambigüedad
References
    
- “ambiguitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ambiguitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ambiguitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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