camba

See also: Camba

Asturian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *kambos (“curved”). Cognate with Walloon tchame (“wheelrim”), Old Irish camm (“crooked, bent”), Welsh cam (“crooked”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkamba/, [ˈkãm.ba]

Noun

camba f (plural cambes)

1. each one of the bent pieces of the felly (in a traditional wooden wheel)

Derived terms

• cambiella
• cambiellu

Etymology 2

From Latin camba (“leg”). Last attested in 1946 (Ensayo de un Vocabulario Bable de la Rima, Antonio García Oliveros, 1946).

Noun

camba f (plural cambes)

1. (obsolete) leg

Galician

A Galician traditional ox cart

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkamba/ [ˈkɑm.bɐ]
• Rhymes: -amba
• Hyphenation: cam‧ba

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *kambos (“curved”). Cognate with Walloon tchame (“wheelrim”), Old Irish camm (“crooked, bent”), Welsh cam (“crooked”).

Noun

camba f (plural cambas)

1. each one of the bent pieces of the felly (in a traditional wooden wheel)
2. doorjamb of the oven
3. handmill
4. curved beam of the plough

Derived terms

• Camba
• cambadela (“somersault”)
• Cambados
• cambar (“to bend”)
• cambela (a type of plough)
• Cambela
• cambelo (a bent stick)
• cambeta (a special clamp)
• cambiar (“to change”)
• cambo
• cambón (a number of pronged tools)
• cambota (“hood of a fireplace”)

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “camba”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “camba”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “camba”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

camba

1. inflection of cambar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Alternative forms

• gamba

Etymology

From Ancient Greek καμπή (kampḗ)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkam.ba/, [ˈkämbä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkam.ba/, [ˈkämbä]

Noun

camba f (genitive cambae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) leg

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	camba	cambae
genitive	cambae	cambārum
dative	cambae	cambīs
accusative	cambam	cambās
ablative	cambā	cambīs
vocative	camba	cambae

Descendants

• Asturian: camba
• Catalan: cama
• Franco-Provençal: chamba
• Gascon: cama
• Occitan: camba, chamba
• Old Spanish: cama

References

• “gamba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• camba 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)
• gamba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 703/1.

Occitan

Etymology

From Late Latin camba

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkambo/

• Audio:

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Noun

camba f (plural cambas)

1. leg
2. stem (plants)

Dialectal variants

• cama
• chamba

Derived terms

• cambajon

Portuguese

Verb

camba

1. inflection of cambar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Etymology

From a vesre form of bacán.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkamba/ [ˈkãm.ba]
• Rhymes: -amba
• Syllabification: cam‧ba

Noun

camba m (plural cambas)

1. (vesre) pimp

Further reading

• “camba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10