cammarus
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek κάμμαρος (kámmaros), from Pre-Greek. This term is potentially a cognate of Danish hummer, Old Norse humarr (“lobster”) (which is the source of French homard).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkam.ma.rus/, [ˈkämːärʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkam.ma.rus/, [ˈkämːärus]
Noun
[edit]cammarus m (genitive cammarī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | cammarus | cammarī |
| genitive | cammarī | cammarōrum |
| dative | cammarō | cammarīs |
| accusative | cammarum | cammarōs |
| ablative | cammarō | cammarīs |
| vocative | cammare | cammarī |
Descendants
[edit]- Italian: camarón
- Italian: gambero
- Occitan: chambre, gambre
- Old French: jamble
- Portuguese: camarão
- Spanish: cámaro, cámbaro, camarón, gámbaro
References
[edit]- “cammarus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cammarus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cammarus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κάμμαρος 1”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 631
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