Noun: gambit
| Singular | gambit |
| Plural | gambits |
Sample Sentences
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Her clever gambit gave her an advantage.
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Their promise to lower taxes is clearly an election-year gambit.
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The Red Holocaust is best interpreted in this light as the bitter fruit of an^([sic]) utopian gambit that was socially misengineered into a dystopic nightmare by despots in humanitarian disguise. [2009, Steven Rosefielde, Red Holocaust, page 240:]
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An opening sequence, featuring a de-aged Ford playing a younger Indy, is a bold and nostalgic gambit, offering a glimpse of what you've missed. [2023 June 29, City AM, London, page 18, column 2:]
Nouns inflected like gambit
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em-
3. Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
5. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
6. Proto-Indo-European *kh₂empeh₂
7. Proto-Hellenic *kampā́
8. Ancient Greek καμπή (kampḗ)bor.
9. Late Latin gamba
10. Italian gamba
11. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
12. Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
13. Late Latin -ittus
14. Italian -etto
15. Italian gambettobor.
16. English gambit
17. Borrowed from Italian gambetto (“act of tripping; gambit”), from gamba (“leg”) + -etto (diminutive suffix). First attested in 1656.
Verbs referencing "gambit"
Polish Nouns
gambit, Finnish Nouns
gambiitti, Italian Nouns
gambitto.