Meanings
present singular third person obambulates · participle present obambulating · participle past obambulated · past obambulated
- archaicintransitiverareTo walk about; to wander aimlessly.
Dreaming of success, wealth and luxury, Deetee obambulated around the set in a leisurely manner.
2018, Hulta Gertrude, Operation Selector1 more example
While we, alas! must still obambulate, Sequacious of the court and courtier's fate : O most infaust who optates there to live! An aulic life no solid joys can give.
1989, François Rabelais, “An Epistle by Pantagruel's Limosin”, in The Complete Works of Doctor François Rabelais - archaicraretransitiveTo walk or go up to, so as or as if to meet.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁ep-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁éps
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁óp(i)
- Proto-Italic*op
- Latinob
- Latinob-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂ent-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂énts?
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂m̥bʰí
- Proto-Italic*amβi-
- Latinambi-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂elh₂-
- Proto-Italic*alō
- Latin*alō
- Latinambulō
- Latinobambulō
- Latinobambulātus
- Englishobambulate
First attested in 1614; borrowed from Latin obambulātus, perfect passive participle of obambulō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
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