camus

See also: Camus and CAMUS

English

Noun

camus

1. Obsolete form of camis (clothing).

Further reading

• “camus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• CUSMA, sumac, USMCA, musac, Musca, musca, MUSCA

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French camus, from Old French camus, from Proto-Celtic *kambos. Compare Italian camuso (“snub-nosed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.my/

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Adjective

camus (feminine camuse, masculine plural camus, feminine plural camuses)

1. flat-nosed

Related terms

• camard

Further reading

• “camus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Etymology

From Doric Greek κᾱμός (kāmós), Attic Greek κημός (kēmós, “muzzle, nose-bag; face-mask; a female ornament”).

Noun

cāmus m (genitive cāmī); second declension

1. (doubtful) a punishment device, perhaps a kind of collar for the neck
2. (doubtful) a kind of collar for the neck, a necklace or neckband
3. (Late Latin) collar, muzzle or snaffle (as for a horse or an ass)
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.26.3:

     Flagellum equō, et cāmus asinō, et virgā in dorsō imprūdentium.

     A whip for a horse, and a snaffle for an ass, and a rod for the back of fools.
     (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cāmus	cāmī
genitive	cāmī	cāmōrum
dative	cāmō	cāmīs
accusative	cāmum	cāmōs
ablative	cāmō	cāmīs
vocative	cāme	cāmī

Quotations

For the sense punishment device; necklace:

In Quintus Horatius Flaccus' Satirae or Sermones, liber I, the reading of this word is doubtful: it may either have been cāmus as a punishment device, or Cadmus as a proper noun. Compare for example:

• Des Q. Horatius Flaccus Sermonen, vol. I, ed. Hermann Fritzsche, Leipzig, 1875, page 154f.:

  „Tune, Syri, Damae, aut Dionysi filius, audes
  Deicere de saxo civīs aut tradere camo?“

• Horace Satires, Epistles and Ars poetica with an English translation by H. Rushton Fairclough, 1942, page 78f.:

  "tune, Syri, Damae aut Dionysi filius, audes
  deicere de saxo civis aut tradere Cadmo?"

  "Do you, the son of a Syrus, a Dama, a Dionysius, dare to fling from the rock or to hand over to Cadmus citizens of Rome?"

In Lucius Attius or Accius as cited by Nonius Marcellus, cāmus is interpreted as a punishment device or a necklace. See for example:

• Nonius Marcellus, De compendiosa doctrina, p. 200, line 16f. In: Wallace M. Lindsay ed., Nonii Marcelli de conpendiosa doctrina, vol. I, LL. I–III, Leipzig, 1903, page 294:

  Collus masculino Accius Epigonis (302):
  . quid cesso ire ád eam? em, praesto ést: camo collúm gravem.

• Otto Ribbeck, Scaenicae romanorum poesis fragmenta. Vol. I, Leipzig, 1897, page 202f.:

  <Séd> quid cesso ire ád eam? em praesto est: <ém> camo collúm grauem!

  Non. 200, 15 'collus masculino Accius Epigono . . .'

• Tr. E. H. Warmington, Remains of Old Latin, vol. II, 1936, page 426f. (Lucius Accius (or Atticus), Epigoni):

  287
  Nonius, 200, 16: ' Collus' masculino . . .–
    Alcmeo
  . . . Quid cesso ire ad eam? Em praesto est: camo
    collum graven!

  287
  Alcmaeon sees Eriphyle decked with the necklace with which she was bribed:
  Nonius: 'Collus' in the masculine . . .–
    Alcmaeon
      I'll not
  Delay to approach her. See! She is at hand.
  How heavy with the neck-band is her throat!

Descendants

• Italian: camo
• Proto-West Germanic: *kāmō (see there for further descendants)

References

• “camus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “camus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• camus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 251.
• “camus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “camus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Old Prussian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *kamus, from Proto-Indo-European *kemH- (“to hum”), of imitative origin, see also Proto-Slavic *čьmèľь (“bumblebee”), *komãrъ (“mosquito”), Lithuanian kamãnė.

Noun

camus

1. bumblebee
   • Elbing German-Prussian Vocabulary

     Hu͡mele   Camus