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  • Interesting, so the word "ambigu" was first attested with that meaning in a dictionary in 1694. In Spanish it was recorded in a dictionary for the first time in 1770. I suppose that the first uses of the word were in texts from the 17th century in French. Commented May 29, 2019 at 10:09
  • So in French you can distinguish the adjective and the word by how it is use. Commented May 29, 2019 at 10:33
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    Pour l'étymologie voir aussi au TLFi. Le DHLF dit 1648 pour le « repas entre le déjeuner et le dîner », sans autre précision. Commented May 29, 2019 at 19:40
  • @Survenant9r7 DHLF on google books books.google.com/… Commented May 30, 2019 at 6:54
  • Même si Books permettait le survol, pour l'ambigu à part la date il y a peu à se mettre sous la dent... Commented May 30, 2019 at 8:53