ambulate

English

Etymology

From Latin ambulatus, past participle of ambulō (“I walk, go about”). Cognate to amble.

Verb

ambulate (third-person singular simple present ambulates, present participle ambulating, simple past and past participle ambulated)

  1. (intransitive) To walk; to relocate oneself under the power of one's own legs.
    Peter slowly ambulated to the bathroom, favoring his strained knee.

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:walk

Translations

Further reading

  • ambulate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • ambulate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Latin

Verb

ambulāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of ambulō

Participle

ambulāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of ambulātus
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