a prefix occurring in loanwords from Latin, meaning "both" ( ambiguous ) and "around" ( ambient ); used in the formation of compound words: ambitendency.
[ amphí, Albanian mbë, OIr imb, imb-, Welsh, OBreton am, am- (var. em- ), Gaulish amb ( i )- (see EMBASSY), OHG umbi ( > G um ), OE ymb ( e )-, Skt abhí-tas around. Cf. AMPHI- ]