Etymology

overambition

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Today it means: The quality of being overambitious. Full definition →

English ambition ← Middle English ambicioun ← Old French ambition
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Germanic*uber
  4. Old Englishofer-
  5. Middle Englishover-
  6. Englishover-
  7. Latinambitiō
  8. Old Frenchambition
  9. Middle Englishambicioun
  10. Englishambition
  11. English todayoverambition

From over- + ambition.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.