camera

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English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin camera (“chamber or bedchamber”), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”), of Old Iranian origin, from Proto-Iranian *kamarā- (“something curved”), from *kamárati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kmárati, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em- (“to bend, curve”). Doublet of chamber.(device): A clipping of camera obscura, from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), because the first cameras used a pinhole and a dark room.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkæməɹə/, /ˈkæmɹə/
• Hyphenation: ca‧me‧ra, cam‧era

Noun

camera (plural cameras or (rare) cameræ or (rare) camerae)

2. (photography) A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.
3. (computer graphics, video games) The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation.
4. A vaulted room.
5. A judge's private chamber, where cases may be heard in camera.

Derived terms

Related terms

• bicameral
• camerated

Descendants

Translations

Further reading

• camera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “camera”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “camera”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “camera”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Macrae, Macera

Dutch

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), from Latin camera (“chamber, bedchamber”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaː.mə.raː/
• Hyphenation: ca‧me‧ra

Noun

camera f (plural camera's, diminutive cameraatje n)

1. camera

Derived terms

Related terms

• camcorder
• kamer
• webcam

Descendants

• Afrikaans: kamera
• → Indonesian: kamera

French

Pronunciation

Verb

camera

1. third-person singular simple future of camer

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.me.ra/

Noun

camera (plural cameras)

1. room, chamber

Italian

Etymology

From Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára). Doublet of zambra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.me.ra/
• Rhymes: -amera
• Hyphenation: cà‧me‧ra

Noun

camera f (plural camere, diminutive camerétta or camerìna or camerìno m or (literary) camerèlla, augmentative cameróna or cameróne m, pejorative cameràccia, derogatory camerùccia)

1. room; chamber (all senses)

   Synonyms: stanza, sala

2. bedroom
3. assembly, parliament
4. camera (for taking moving pictures)

   Synonym: telecamera

Derived terms

Related terms

• camerlengo

Descendants

• → Arabic: قمرة (qamara, qamra)
• → Ottoman Turkish: قامره, قماره
  • Turkish: kamara
  • → Armenian: խամառա (xamaṙa)
• → Serbo-Croatian: kamara / камара

Anagrams

• arcame, macera

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin camera.

Noun

camera f (plural cameres)

1. chamber, room

Latin

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”).

Alternative forms

• camara (Classical Latin)
• cambra (Medieval Latin)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈka.me.ra/, [ˈkämɛrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.me.ra/, [ˈkäːmerä]

Noun

camera f (genitive camerae); first declension

1. A chamber in its various senses, including:
   1. A room, especially a vaulted room, a vault.
   2. A deliberative body.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• camella
• camera obscura (New Latin)
  • → Dutch: camera
    • Afrikaans: kamera
    • → Indonesian: kamera
  • → English: camera (see there for further descendants)
  • → German: Kamera
    • → Czech: kamera
    • → Estonian: kaamera
    • →? Finnish: kamera
  • → Swedish: kamera
• concamerō

Descendants

Many forms are from the variant camara.

Borrowings

References

• “camera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “camera”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• camera 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)
• camera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “chamber”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈka.me.raː/, [ˈkämɛräː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.me.ra/, [ˈkäːmerä]

Verb

camerā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of camerō

Romanian

Noun

camera f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of cameră

Spanish

Noun

camera f (plural cameras)

1. female equivalent of camero

Adjective

camera f

1. feminine singular of camero

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English camera, from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára), of Old Iranian origin.

Noun

camera m (plural camerâu)

1. camera

Mutation

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “camera”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies