camera

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: cam‧er‧a, cam‧era

Noun

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

  1. Example: He used his camera to click photos of the bears in the zoo.
  • (photography) A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.
    1. (computer graphics, video games) The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation.
    2. A vaulted room.
    3. 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.
    • William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “camera”, in The Century Dictionary [], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →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 καμάρᾱ (kamárā, 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.mɛ.ra]
      • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkaː.me.ra]

      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.
      • William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “chamber”, in The Century Dictionary [], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

      Etymology 2

      See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

      Pronunciation

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

      Verb

      camerā

      1. second-person singular present active imperative of camerō

      Romanian

      Noun

      camera f

      1. definite nominative/accusative singular of cameră

      Spanish

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /kaˈmeɾa/ [kaˈme.ɾa]
      • Rhymes: -eɾa
      • Syllabification: ca‧me‧ra

      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
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