ambrosia

From Latin ambrosia (“food of the gods”), from Ancient Greek ἀμβροσία (ambrosía, “immortality”), from ἄμβροτος (ámbrotos, “immortal”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + βροτός (brotós, “mortal”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /æmˈbɹoʊʒə/

ambrosia (countable and uncountable, plural ambrosias)

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) The food of the gods, thought to confer immortality.
2. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) The anointing-oil of the gods.
3. Any food with an especially delicious flavour or fragrance.
4. Anything delightfully sweet and pleasing.
5. An annual herb historically used medicinally and in cooking, Dysphania botrys.
6. A mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae.
7. Any fungus of a number of species that insects such as ambrosia beetles carry as symbionts, "farming" them on poor-quality food such as wood, where they grow, providing food for the insect.
8. A dessert made of shredded coconuts and tropical fruits such as pineapples and oranges; some recipes also include ingredients such as marshmallow and cream.

• ambrosia beetle
• ambrosia fungus
• ambrosial
• ambrosian

• manna (noun)
• mead (noun)
• nectar (noun)

• Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “ambrosia”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

• Saboraim

From translingual Ambrosia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑmbrosiɑ/, [ˈɑmbro̞ˌs̠iɑ]
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Syllabification^(key): amb‧ro‧si‧a

ambrosia

1. ambrosia

From Latin ambrosia, borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀμβροσίᾱ (ambrosíā, “immortality”).

• IPA^(key): /amˈbrɔ.zja/
• Rhymes: -ɔzja
• Hyphenation: am‧brò‧sia

ambrosia f (plural ambrosie)

1. ambrosia (all senses)
2. (figurative) honeydew

• Ambrogio

• arabismo, bramosia, brasiamo

From Ancient Greek ἀμβροσία (ambrosía, “immortality”), from ἄμβροτος (ámbrotos, “immortal”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /amˈbro.si.a/, [ämˈbrɔs̠iä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /amˈbro.si.a/, [ämˈbrɔːs̬iä]

ambrosia f (genitive ambrosiae); first declension

1. The food of the gods; ambrosia.
2. The unguent of the gods.
3. The plant, artemisia, of the genus Artemisia.
4. An antidote to a poison.

First-declension noun.

• ambrosiacus

• ambrosius

• “ambrosia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ambrosia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ambrosia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “ambrosia”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “ambrosia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ambrosia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

ambrosia f (plural ambrosias)

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) ambrosia (food of gods or delicious foods)