Ambulance

What “Ambulance” means

Noun

1. An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital.
2. A mobile field hospital.
3. A vehicle used for the transportation of dead people, typically to a mortuary.
4. Synonym of stretcher, a litter used for medical transport.
5. Synonym of covered wagon.

Verb

1. To transport by ambulance.

Where the word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts? Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰíder. Proto-Italic *amβi- Latin ambi- Proto-Indo-European *h₂elh₂-der. Proto-Italic *alō Latin *alō Latin ambulō Proto-Indo-European *-onts Latin -ns Latin ambulānsbor. French ambulant ▲ Latin -ns Latin -āns Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin -āntia Old French -ance Middle French -ance French -ance French ambulancebor. English ambulance Borrowed from French ambulance, which replaced hôpital ambulant (“moving hospital”) via the suffix -ance, from Latin ambulō (“to walk; to go about”).

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• Ambulance Services