camara

See also: Camara, Câmara, câmara, cámara, camará, and cămară

Javanese

Romanization

camara

1. romanization of ꦕꦩꦫ

Latin

Etymology 1

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.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

camara f (genitive camarae); first declension

1. alternative form of camera

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	camara	camarae
genitive	camarae	camarārum
dative	camarae	camarīs
accusative	camaram	camarās
ablative	camarā	camarīs
vocative	camara	camarae

References

• “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, 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

Etymology 2

A regularly conjugated form of camarō (verb).

Pronunciation

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

Verb

camarā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of camarō

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• cámera

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ma.ɾa/
• Rhymes: -amaɾa
• Hyphenation: ca‧ma‧ra

Noun

cámara f (plural cámaras)

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

   • c. 1450, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Historia de la Santa A. M. Iglesia de Santiago de Compostela, VII, p. 136:

     ítem mando que dentro enas ditas casas de miña morada seja apartadamente outra Cámara de libraría en que sejan postos todos meus libros en rroda et almarios

     Item, I order that, inside my houses where I reside, they build another chamber for library, and that they place in it all my books around in shelves

Descendants

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

References

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “camara”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2026), “câmera”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do português medieval [Historical and chronological vocabulary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “camara”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Old Javanese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

camara

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

Descendants

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

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Noun

camara f (plural camaras)

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰamaɾˠa/

Noun

camara m (plural camarathan)

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

Mutation

Mutation of camara

radical	lenition
camara	chamara

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.