cameraman

See also: caméraman

English

Etymology

From camera +‎ -man.

Noun

cameraman (plural cameramen)

Somebody who operates a movie camera or television camera.
Coordinate term: camerawoman
- 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 24:
  ‘We were getting a grand shot of a charging rhino when the cameraman got scared and bolted. The fathead!’

Synonyms

Descendants

→ Albanian: kameraman
→ Catalan: cameràman
→ Czech: kameraman
→ French: caméraman
→ Italian: cameraman
→ Portuguese: cameraman
→ Romanian: cameraman
→ Turkish: kameraman

Translations

somebody who operates a film or TV camera

Armenian: կինոօպերատոր (hy) (kinoōperator)
Belarusian: кінаапера́тар m (kinaapjerátar)
Catalan: cameràman m or f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 攝影者 / 摄影者 (shèyǐngzhě), 攝影師 / 摄影师 (zh) (shèyǐngshī)
Czech: kameraman (cs) m
Danish: kameramand c
Esperanto: kameraisto
Estonian: filmioperaator
Faroese: myndamaður m
Finnish: kuvaaja (fi), kameramies (fi)
French: caméraman (fr) m, cadreur (fr) m
Georgian: ოპერატორი (oṗeraṭori)
German: Kameramann (de) m, Kamerafrau (de) f, Kameraoperateur m
Greek: εικονολήπτης (el) m (eikonolíptis), εικονολήπτρια (el) f (eikonolíptria)
Hungarian: operatőr (hu)
Indonesian: kamerawan (id), kameramen
Italian: operatore (it) m, addetto (it) m
Japanese: 撮影技師 (さつえいぎし, satsuei gishi), カメラマン (ja) (kameraman)
Korean: 카메라맨 (ko) (kameramaen)
Marathi: कॅमेरामॅन m (kĕmerāmĕn)
Norman: vidéoiste m or f
Persian: فیلمبردار (filmbardâr)
Polish: kamerzysta (pl) m
Portuguese: cameraman m, câmera (pt) m
Romanian: cameraman (ro) m
Russian: киноопера́тор (ru) m (kinooperátor), телеопера́тор (ru) m (teleoperátor)
Spanish: camarógrafo (es) m, camarógrafa (es) f, cámara (es) m or f
Swedish: kameraman (sv) c, filmfotograf (sv) c
Thai: ตากล้อง (th) (dtaa-glɔ̂ng)
Turkish: kameraman (tr)
Ukrainian: кіноопера́тор m (kinooperátor)
Vietnamese: chuyên viên quay phim, chuyên viên ghi hình, người quay phim, người ghi hình
Welsh: dyn camera m

French

Noun

cameraman m (plural cameramen)

alternative form of caméraman

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cameraman.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈka.me.ra.men/, /ˈka.me.ra.mɛn/
Rhymes: -ameramen, -ameramɛn
Hyphenation: cà‧me‧ra‧man

Noun

cameraman m or f by sense (invariable)

cameraman

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cameraman.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌkɐ̃.me.ɾaˈmẽj̃/ [ˌkɐ̃.me.ɾaˈmẽɪ̯̃]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌkɐ.me.ɾaˈmẽj̃/ [ˌkɐ.me.ɾaˈmẽɪ̯̃]

Noun

cameraman m (plural cameramen or cameramans)

cameraman (somebody who operates a film or TV camera)
Synonyms: câmara, operador de câmara, cinegrafista

Romanian

Alternative forms

camerman

Etymology

Borrowed from English cameraman.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ka.me.raˈman/

Noun

cameraman m (plural cameramani)

cameraman (somebody who operates a film or TV camera)

Declension

Declension of **cameraman**
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
	singular		plural
nominative-accusative	cameraman	cameramanul	cameramani	cameramanii
genitive-dative	cameraman	cameramanului	cameramani	cameramanilor
vocative	cameramanule		cameramanilor

Related terms

cameră

References

“cameraman”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025