What is the base word of ambitious?

Answer 1

ambitiously

Answer 2

The noun from which the word ambitious is derived is ambition.

The Etymology of which is the French ambition from Latin ambitiōn-em , a noun of action derived from the Latin ambī-re to go round or about

1. going round,

2. going round to canvass for votes,

3. eager desire of honour, etc.,

4. ostentation, pomp,

5. earnest desire generally.

Of these, meaning 3 was first adopted in the modern languages; 2 is a later literary adoption directly from Latin.

The first recorded use is in the year 1340 Ayenbite Ambicion, þet is kuead wilninge heȝe to cliue.

A later, and more clumsy, use is the word ambitiousness, first recorded in 1477 T. Norton Ordinall of Alchimy in Ashm. 1652 i. 13 It [Alchemy] voydeth (i.e. nullifies) Ambitiousnesse.

Answer 3

ambit