Pronounced: POT-boy-ler, noun
Notes: I had a debate about posting this word (more tomorrow)
Yesterday’s word
The word ambit means “scope; range; limit; or boundary”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1300s
Background / Comments
I’ve never run across our word, but it is a nice, useful word. It comes from the Latin word ambitus (going around), which comes from ambire (to go around), which is composed of ambi- (both; around) and ire (to go).
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