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camara

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Javanese

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Romanization

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camara

  1. Romanization of ꦕꦩꦫ

Latin

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Etymology 1

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A collateral form of camera (noun), closer to their shared etymon, the Ancient Greek κᾰμᾰ́ρᾱ (kamárā). Although often associated with Vulgar Latin, it could also be found in some Classical Latin authors' works, as a learned variant of the more usual camera.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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camara f (genitive camarae); first declension

  1. Alternative form of camera
Declension
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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative camara camarae
genitive camarae camarārum
dative camarae camarīs
accusative camaram camarās
ablative camarā camarīs
vocative camara camarae

References

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  • camara”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • camara”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • camara in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • cămăra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 249/2.
  • camara”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • camara”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • camara”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • camara” on page 262 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
  • Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “camara”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 117/1

Etymology 2

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A regularly conjugated form of camarō (verb).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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camarā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of camarō

Old Galician-Portuguese

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Etymology

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    From Vulgar Latin camara, from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára).

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    camara f (plural camaras)

    1. room, chamber

    Descendants

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    • Galician: cámara
    • Portuguese: câmara, cambra (see there for further descendants)

    Old Javanese

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from Sanskrit चमर (camara, yak).

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    camara

    1. yak
    2. the bushy tail of the yak
    3. Alternative spelling of cāmara

    Descendants

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    Further reading

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    • "camara" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

    Portuguese

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    Noun

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    camara f (plural camaras)

    1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of câmara.

    Scottish Gaelic

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    Etymology

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    From English camera, from Latin camera (chamber), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, vault), of Old Iranian origin.

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    Noun

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    camara m (plural camarathan)

    1. camera (device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs)

    Mutation

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    Mutation of camara
    radical lenition
    camara chamara

    Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
    All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.