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- Latin · derived fromambitiosus
- Middle French · derived fromambitieus
- Middle English · inherited fromambitious
- English todayambitious
From Middle English ambitious, from Middle French ambitieus, from Latin ambitiosus, from ambitio; see ambition. Compare with French ambitieux. By surface analysis, ambit + -ious.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.