cambra

See also: Cambra

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára). Compare Occitan cambra and chambra. Doublet of càmera, a latinism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkam.bɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkam.bɾa]

• Audio:

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Noun

cambra f (plural cambres)

1. room
2. bedroom
3. chamber
4. (euphemistic) stool

Derived terms

• anar de cambra
• antecambra
• avantcambra
• cambra de gas
• cambrejar
• cambrer
• cambres clares
• cambreta
• cambró
• de cambra
• recambra

 

Further reading

• “cambra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cambra”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “cambra” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cambra” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Verb

cambra

1. third-person singular past historic of cambrer

Galician

Etymology

Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *krampō (“cramp”). Cognate with Portuguese cãibra and Spanish calambre; see also French crampe. Compare also Italian cambra, French cambre, from a different origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkambɾa̝/

Noun

cambra m (plural cambras)

1. cramp (a painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled)

   Synonym: breca

Related terms

• grampa (“clamp”)
• grampo (“clamp”)

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cambra”, 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), “cambra”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cambra”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cambre, from Picard or Norman, from Old Northern French, derived from Latin camur (“curved, bent”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkam.bra/
• Rhymes: -ambra
• Hyphenation: càm‧bra

Noun

cambra f (plural cambre)

1. cramp, clamp

   Synonym: grappa

Related terms

• cambretta

Latin

Pronunciation

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

Noun

cambra f (genitive cambrae); first declension

1. medieval spelling of camera

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cambra	cambrae
genitive	cambrae	cambrārum
dative	cambrae	cambrīs
accusative	cambram	cambrās
ablative	cambrā	cambrīs
vocative	cambra	cambrae

References

• cambra 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)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “cambra”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 118/1

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• chambra

Etymology

From Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára). Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French chambre.

Noun

cambra f (oblique plural cambras, nominative singular cambra, nominative plural cambras)

1. room, in particular a bedroom

Descendants

• Occitan: cambra, chambra

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “camera”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 130

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin camara, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára). Doublet of cámara.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkambɾa/ [ˈkãm.bɾa]
• Rhymes: -ambɾa
• Syllabification: cam‧bra

Noun

cambra f (plural cambras) (obsolete)

1. room

   Synonym: cuarto

2. bedroom

   Synonym: habitación

Further reading

• “cambra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28