camara

camara

1. romanization of ꦕꦩꦫ

A collateral form of camera (noun), closer to their shared etymon, the Ancient Greek κᾰμᾰ́ρᾱ (kămắrā). Although often associated with Vulgar Latin, it could also be found in some Classical Latin authors' works, as a learned variant of the more usual camera.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈka.ma.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkaː.ma.ra]

camara f (genitive camarae); first declension

1. alternative form of camera

First-declension noun.

• “camara”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “camara”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "camara", 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)
• cămăra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 249/2.
• “camara”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “camara”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “camara”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “camara” on page 262 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “camara”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 117/1

A regularly conjugated form of camarō (verb).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈka.ma.raː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkaː.ma.ra]

camarā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of camarō

From Vulgar Latin camara, from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára).

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ma.ɾa/

camara f (plural camaras)

1. room, chamber
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 312 (facsimile):

     ⁊ poren dẽtr en ſa Caſa lle deu en que a lauraſſe / hũa Camara fremoſa

     and for this reason he gave him a beautiful chamber inside his house in which to carve it

• Galician: cámara
• Portuguese: câmara, cambra (see there for further descendants)

Borrowed from Sanskrit चमर (camara, “yak”).

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃa.ma.ra/
• Rhymes: -ra
• Homophone: cāmara
• Hyphenation: ca‧ma‧ra

camara

1. yak
2. the bushy tail of the yak
3. alternative spelling of cāmara

• > Javanese: ꦕꦩꦫ (camara), ꦕꦼꦩꦫ (cemara) (inherited)

• "camara" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

camara f (plural camaras)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of câmara.

From English camera, from Latin camera (“chamber”), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “vault”), of Old Iranian origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰamaɾˠa/

camara m (plural camarathan)

1. camera (device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs)