camarilla
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish camarilla, from cámara (“chamber”) and the diminutive suffix -illa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌkæməˈɹɪlə/, /ˌkæməˈɹiː(j)ə/
- Rhymes: -ɪlə
Noun
camarilla (plural camarillas)
- A secret, usually sinister, group of conspiring advisors close to the leadership; a cabal.
- 1990 September 20, Wall Street Journal:
- The same lack of accountability has been even more disastrous for the two state-owned banks, which exist primarily to funnel IMF and World Bank funds to the president and his camarilla in the form of unsecured loans.
- 2013, Simon Winder, Danubia, Picador, published 2014, page 369:
- The negotiation dripped with bad faith on both sides, with a powerful Austrian camarilla always seeing it as a short-term deal with the Hungarians to be followed by retribution in due course.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish camarilla.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.ma.ʁi.ja/
Audio: (file)
Noun
camarilla f (plural camarillas)
Further reading
- “camarilla”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish camarilla.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.maˈril.la/
- Rhymes: -illa
- Hyphenation: ca‧ma‧rìl‧la
Noun
camarilla f (plural camarille)
Further reading
- camarilla in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Spanish
Etymology
From cámara (“chamber”) + -illa (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kamaˈɾiʝa/ [ka.maˈɾi.ʝa] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /kamaˈɾiʎa/ [ka.maˈɾi.ʎa] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /kamaˈɾiʃa/ [ka.maˈɾi.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /kamaˈɾiʒa/ [ka.maˈɾi.ʒa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -iʝa (most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -iʎa (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -iʃa (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -iʒa (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: ca‧ma‧ri‧lla
Noun
camarilla f (plural camarillas)
- a secret, usually sinister, group of conspiring advisors close to the leadership; a cabal
- "El objetivo implícito de esta línea de pensamiento es un mundo de pesadilla en el que el líder, o alguna camarilla gobernante, controla no sólo el futuro sino también el pasado." — George Orwell, «Mirando hacia atrás a la guerra civil española.» (otoño de 1942)
Descendants
Further reading
- “camarilla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024