ambilevous

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Определение ambilevous в Английский Язык Турецкий язык словарь

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Определение ambilevous в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь

Having equally bad ability in both hands; clumsy; butterfingered

I as a right-handed person do not have the option of becoming genuinely ambidextrous, literally one with ‘two right hands’. And I surely must guard against sinking into one is who is doubly left-handed, or ambilevous. (We may notice the prejudice uncovered by etymology.) But I can, by will and practice, lessen the native inferiority of my weaker side.

Left-handed on both sides; clumsy; opposed to ambidexter

Синонимы

ambisinistrous

Антонимы

ambidextrous

Этимология

() First attested in English in 1646 listed in the Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper: from Latin ambilaevus (ambi- (“both”) + laevus (“left”))Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc., a calque of Ancient Greek ἀμφαρίστερος (ampharisteros, “with two left hands, awkward, clumsy”)On of Left-handedness: Laterality Characteristics and Their Educational Implications (University of London Press, 1957) by Margaret MacDonald Clark, it is asserted that “In describing these cases, Galen (quoted by Orton) coined the word ‘ambilevous’, to imply having two left hands, to exclude the idea of skill connoted by the term ‘ambidextrous’.”; however the said Ancient Greek root term ἀμφαρίστερος also occurs in a fragment of a non-surviving play by the dramatist Aristophanes (who lived circa 456–386 BCE — around six hundred years before Galen of Pergamon (circa 129–200 CE)), so Galen cannot have been its coiner. from ἀμφί (amphi, “on both sides”) + ἀριστερός (aristeros, “left”).