Is 'ambulance' English, or is it actually Latin?

'Ambulance' is a word borrowed from Latin 'ambulant'. The word entered the English language some time around 1809.

ambulance [noun] [1809]

A vehicle equipped for transporting the injured or sick

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Etymology: French, from ('hôpital') 'ambulant' literally, ambulant field hospital, from 'ambulant' itinerant, from Latin 'ambulant-, ambulans' present participle of 'ambulare'

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