Camena

• Casmēna
• Carmēna
• Camoena

Older form in Casmēna. Traditionally associated with carmen (“chant, song, poem”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kaˈmeː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kaˈmɛː.na]

Camēna f sg (genitive Camēnae); first declension

1. a water-nymph of the Romans (e.g. Egeria)
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 1.21.3:

     lūcus erat, quem medium ex opācō specū fōns perennī rigābat aquā. quō quia sē persaepe Numa sine arbitrīs velut ad congressum deae inferēbat, Camēnīs eum lūcum sacrāvit, quod eārum ibi concilia cum conjuge suā Ēgeriā essent.

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2. a muse
   • 3rd century BCE, Livius Andronicus, Odusia 1.1:

     Virum mihi, Camēna, īnsece versūtum.

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First-declension noun.

• Camēnālis

• → French: Camène
• → German: Kamene

• Camena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Camena in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• “Camena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic камень (kamenĭ, “stone”).

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Camena f

1. a village in Cornereva, Caraș-Severin County, Romania
2. a village in Baia, Tulcea County, Romania