A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

MEANING:

noun: Ambiguity; circumlocution.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Middle English ambages (equivocation), taken as a plural and the singular ambage coined from it. From Latin ambages, from ambi- (both, around) + agere (to drive). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ag- (to drive, draw, or move), which also gave us act, agent, agitate, litigate, synagogue, ambassador, agonistes intransigent . Earliest documented use: 1374.