unicameral

See also: unicaméral

English

WOTD – 21 February 2016

Etymology

From uni- +‎ cameral.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /juːniːˈkaməɹəl/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /junɪˈkæməɹəl/
• Hyphenation: uni‧cam‧er‧al

Adjective

unicameral (not comparable)

1. (government) Of, or having, a single legislative chamber.
   • 2002, Levent Gönenç, Prospects for Constitutionalism in Post-Communist Countries, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, →ISBN, page 341:

     Those who criticize bicameralism stress that a unicameral legislature will be more efficient and faster in taking decisions.

   • 2006, Philipp Kiiver, The National Parliaments in the European Union: A Critical View on EU Constitution-building, The Hague: Kluwer Law International, →ISBN, page 21:

     [W]e could define a national parliament broadly as a Member State's central representative assembly which elects or at least dismisses the national government, and which holds it to account. This seems to be a robust definition comprising the unicameral parliaments, the lower chambers of the bicameral parliaments and the senates with censure powers in the EU Member States.

   • 2008, Josep M. Colomer, editor, Comparative European Politics, 3rd edition, Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 11:

     The judicial branch of government in Norden is framed around the conception of the sovereignty of parliament. There is room for some independent legal review by the ordinary courts in Norway only. No country has a Constitutional Court, though human rights have constitutional protection. The five countries have unicameral National Assemblies. All forms of public power derive ultimately from Acts of parliament, which principle of legislative supremacy has not prohibited a fairly extensive system of local government autonomy, especially in Sweden, Denmark and Finland.

   • 2009, Clyve Jones, “Epilogue”, in Clyve Jones, editor, A Short History of Parliament: England, Great Britain, the United Kingdom, Ireland & Scotland, Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, →ISBN, page 364:

     In 1951 New Zealand's parliament was converted into a unicameral one with the abolition of the upper, nominated chamber, the Legislative Council.

2. (typography) Of a script or typeface: making no distinction between upper and lower case, but rather having only one case.

   

   A Georgian Mkhedruli inscription from Mount Athos. It is unicameral – it does not distinguish between upper and lower case.

   • 2004, Letter Arts Review, volume 19, Norman, Okla.: Calligraphy Review, →OCLC, page 37:

     In the ancient world, Greek was written in a script that was unicameral and atonic. It consisted of a single set of forms – the ones we now regard as upper case. There was little or no punctuation, and there were no diacritics.

   • 2007 September, Yannis Haralambous, translated by P. Scott Horne, Fonts & Encodings, Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 75:

     There have been several misunderstandings with regard to Georgian. The Unicode table speaks of "capital" Georgian letters (for example, georgian capital letter an) and of caseless letters (for example, georgian letter an). In fact, the modern Georgian script is unicameral. Two issues gave rise to this confusion. First, the fact that there are two types of Georgian fonts: those for running text and those for titles. […] Second, in the ancient Georgian script, khutsuri, there were indeed two cases.

Synonyms

• (typography): caseless, unicase

Coordinate terms

• bicameral
• tricameral

Derived terms

• unicameralism

Related terms

• unicamerate

Translations

having a single legislative chamber

• Catalan: unicameral (ca), monocameral
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 一院制的 (zh) (yīyuànzhì de)

• Czech: jednokomorový (cs)
• Dutch: eenkamerig, unicameraal, monocameraal
• Finnish: yksikamarinen
• French: unicaméral (fr), monocaméral (fr)
• Galician: unicameral (gl), monocameral (gl)
• Georgian: ერთპალატიანი (ertṗalaṭiani)
• German: Einkammer
• Icelandic: með einni deild
• Italian: unicamerale, monocamerale (it)
• Polish: jednoizbowy (pl), unikameralny
• Portuguese: unicameral (pt), unicamaral
• Romanian: unicameral (ro)
• Russian: однопала́тный (ru) (odnopalátnyj)
• Spanish: unicameral
• Swedish: enkammar-
• Ukrainian: однопала́тний (odnopalátnyj)

Anagrams

• anumerical

Catalan

Adjective

unicameral m or f (masculine and feminine plural unicamerals)

1. (government) unicameral

   Synonym: monocameral

Coordinate terms

• bicameral

Derived terms

• unicameralisme

Galician

Adjective

unicameral m or f (plural unicamerais)

1. (government) unicameral

   Synonym: monocameral

Coordinate terms

• bicameral

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• unicamaral

Etymology

From uni- +‎ câmera +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /u.ni.ka.meˈɾaw/ [u.ni.ka.meˈɾaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /u.ni.kɐ.mɨˈɾal/ [u.ni.kɐ.mɨˈɾaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /u.ni.kɐ.mɨˈɾal/ [u.ni.kɐ.mɨˈɾaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /u.ni.kɐ.mɨˈɾa.li/

• Hyphenation: u‧ni‧ca‧me‧ral

Adjective

unicameral m or f (plural unicamerais, not comparable)

1. (politics) unicameral

Coordinate terms

• bicameral

Derived terms

• unicameralismo

References

• “unicameral”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Romanian

Etymology

From uni- +‎ cameră.

Adjective

unicameral m or n (feminine singular unicamerală, masculine plural unicamerali, feminine and neuter plural unicamerale)

1. unicameral

Declension

Declension of unicameral

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	unicameral		unicamerală	unicamerali	unicamerale
	definite	unicameralul		unicamerala	unicameralii	unicameralele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	unicameral		unicamerale	unicamerali	unicamerale
	definite	unicameralului		unicameralei	unicameralilor	unicameralelor

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French unicaméral.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /unikameˈɾal/ [u.ni.ka.meˈɾal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: u‧ni‧ca‧me‧ral

Adjective

unicameral m or f (masculine and feminine plural unicamerales)

1. (government) unicameral

Coordinate terms

• bicameral

Further reading

• “unicameral”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28