ambulat

Ambulat is a Latin verb form meaning "he/she/it walks." It is the third person singular of the present indicative active of ambulare, the Latin verb meaning to walk or move on foot. In Latin prose and poetry, ambulat appears in narrations and descriptions of ongoing action.

In basic present tense, the verb ambulare is conjugated as follows: ambulo (I walk), ambulas (you walk), ambulat (he/she/it walks), ambulamus (we walk), ambulatis (you walk), ambulant (they walk). The word ambulat serves as a common example for illustrating Latin present tense agreement and word order. The same verb also forms the imperfect and other tenses with additional endings; for example, ambulabat means "he/she/it was walking" in the imperfect.

Etymology and related terms: ambulare derives from the Latin root ambul-, meaning to walk. This root appears in several English terms related to walking or movement, such as ambulatory, ambulation, and ambulance, which reflect the same walking-related idea. The form ambulare and its derivatives are found in Classical Latin texts as well as Late Latin, and they have influenced many Romance languages’ verbs of walking.

See also: Latin grammar, Latin verbs, ambulation, ambulatory, ambulance. Ambulat remains primarily of interest to students and scholars of Latin as an example of a simple present tense form and as part of the broader family of movement-related terms derived from ambul-.