Camera - Wiktionary

See also: Camera, caméra, càmera, câmera, and cameră

English

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Etymology

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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

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• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈkæm.ə.ɹə/, /ˈkæm.ɹə/
• (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈkæm.ə.ɹə/, /ˈkæm.ɚ.ə/, /ˈkæm.ɹə/

• Audio (US); /ˈkæm.ɹə/:

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• Audio (General American); /ˈkæm.ɚ.ə/:

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• Hyphenation: cam‧er‧a, cam‧era

Noun

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

1. (photography) A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.
   • 2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist:The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail. It’s therefore not surprising that most cameras mimic this arrangement.
   • 2024 October 5, Jessie Yeung, “Hong Kong plans to install thousands of surveillance cameras. Critics say it’s more proof the city is moving closer to China”, in CNN‎[1]:Glance up while strolling through parts of downtown Hong Kong and, chances are, you’ll notice the glassy black lens of a surveillance camera trained on the city’s crowded streets.And that sight will become more common in the coming years, as the city’s police pursue an ambitious campaign to install thousands of cameras to elevate their surveillance capabilities.
2. (computer graphics, video games) The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation.
   • 2003, Tom Meigs, Ultimate game design: building game worlds:If you're building a third-person game with enclosed or tight spaces, try to figure out up front what camera problems you will likely encounter. Use this identification process to influence the early building process.
   • 2006, Patrick O'Luanaigh, Game Design Complete:I'm talking about the way the camera flies up above the skater when you leap into the air. No one had done it before.
3. A vaulted room.
4. A judge's private chamber, where cases may be heard in camera.

Derived terms

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• aerial camera
• aerocamera
• Anger camera
• backup camera
• Baker-Nunn camera
• body camera
• body-worn camera
• box camera
• camback
• camcorder
• camera angle
• camera clara
• camera club
• camera flash
• camera fright
• camera left
• cameraless
• cameralike
• camera lucida
• cameraman
• camera move
• camera obscura
• cameraperson
• camera phone
• cameraphone
• camera ready
• camera-ready
• camera rehearsal
• camera right
• camera roll
• camera shake
• camera shot
• camera-shy
• cameratic
• camera trap
• camerawoman
• camera-worker
• camera worker
• camerist
• camfecting
• candid camera
• CCTV camera
• cine camera
• ciné camera
• cold camera
• compact camera
• dashcam
• digital camera
• digital single-lens reflex camera
• digital still camera
• document camera
• fan camera
• fan camera photography
• game camera
• gamma camera
• gastrocamera
• holocamera
• in camera
• instant camera
• IP camera
• Land camera
• lightfield camera
• lights, camera, action
• magazine camera
• make love to the camera
• microcamera
• minicamera
• mirrorless camera
• movie camera
• multicamera
• nanocamera
• noncamera
• off-camera
• off camera
• on camera
• on-camera
• piece to camera
• pin camera
• pinhole camera
• point and shoot camera
• point-and-shoot camera
• rangefinder camera
• rearview camera
• red light camera
• red-light camera
• reflex camera
• reversing camera
• Schmidt camera
• scintillation camera
• security camera
• selfie camera
• speed camera
• stereocamera
• streak camera
• stump camera
• surveillance camera
• the camera never lies
• thermal camera
• thermocamera
• thermographic camera
• three-camera
• three-camera sitcom
• trail camera
• tricamera
• tri-camera photography
• video camera
• view camera
• wearable camera
• webcamera

Related terms

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• ante-camera, anti-camera
• cameral
• camerate

Descendants

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• Tok Pisin: kamera
• → Arabic: كاميرا (kāmērā)
• → Assamese: কেমেৰা (kemera)
• → Bengali: ক্যামেরা (kêmera)
• → Burmese: ကင်မရာ (kangma.ra)
• → Catalan: càmera
• → French: caméra
  • → Crimean Tatar: kamera
  • → Turkish: kamera
• → Gujarati: કેમેરા (kemerā)
• → Hindi: कैमरा (kaimrā)
• → Hungarian: kamera
• → Irish: ceamara
• → Hausa: kyamara
• → Japanese: カメラ (kamera)
  • → Ainu: kamera, カメラ
  • → Amis: kamila
  • → Hokkien: kha-mé-lah
• → Kannada: ಕ್ಯಾಮೆರಾ (kyāmerā)
• → Korean: 카메라 (kamera)
• → Luhya: ekamera
• → Manx: camerey
• → Malay: kamera
• → Māori: kāmera
• → Marathi: कॅमेरा (kĕmerā)
• → Nepali: क्यामेरा (kyāmerā)
• → Norman: caméra, quéméreu
• → Occitan: camerà
• → Punjabi: ਕਮਰਾ (kamrā)
• → Pashto: کامره (kāmrá), کېمره (kemrá)
• → Persian: کامرا (kâmerâ)
• → Romanian: cameră
• → Scottish Gaelic: camara
• → Swahili: kamera
• → Tamil: கேமரா (kēmarā)
• → Telugu: కెమెరా (kemerā)
• → Urdu: کیمرہ (kaimra)
• → Welsh: camera
• → Yoruba: kámẹ́rà

Translations

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still camera

Abkhaz: апатреҭҭыхга (apʼatʼrettəxga) Afrikaans: kamera (af) Albanian: aparat fotografik, kamerë (sq) f Amharic: ካሜራ (kamera) Arabic: كَمِرَة (ar) f (kamira), كَامِيرَا (ar) f (kāmērā), آلَة تَصْوِير f (ʔālat taṣwīr), مُصَوِّرَة f (muṣawwira) (dated) Aramaic: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܨܲܘܪܵܢܝܼܬܵܐ f (mṣawrānītā), ܟܵܡܝܼܪܵܐ f (kāmīrā), ܣܩܹܘܵܐ ܕܨܲܝܵܪܘܼܬܵܐ m (sqēwā d-ṣayyārutā) Armenian: ֆոտոխցիկ (hy) (fotoxcʻik) Assamese: কেমেৰা (kemera) Asturian: cámara f Azerbaijani: fotoaparat Belarusian: фатаапара́т m (fataaparát), ка́мера f (kámjera), фатака́мера f (fatakámjera) Bengali: ক্যামেরা (bn) (kêmera) Bole: kemara Bulgarian: фотоапара́т (bg) m (fotoaparát), фотока́мера f (fotokámera) Burmese: ကင်မရာ (my) (kangma.ra) Catalan: càmera (ca) f Cherokee: ᏗᏓtᎵᎶᏍᏙᏗ (didaTlilosdodi) Chickasaw: ishholbachi' Chinese: Cantonese: 相機 / 相机 (soeng3-2 gei1), 影相機 / 影相机 (jing2 soeng3-2 gei1) Dungan: җощёнҗи (žoxi͡onži) Hokkien: 翕像機 / 翕像机 (hip-siōng-ki) Mandarin: 照相機 / 照相机 (zh) (zhàoxiàngjī), 相機 / 相机 (zh) (xiàngjī) Cornish: kamera m Czech: fotoaparát (cs) m, foťák (cs) m Danish: kamera (da) n, fotografiapparat n, fotoapparat n Dutch: fototoestel (nl) n, fotoapparaat (nl) n, camera (nl) m Esperanto: fotilo, fotografilo Estonian: fotoaparaat, (colloquial) fotokas (et) Farefare: kamera Finnish: kamera (fi), valokuvakamera French: appareil photo (fr) m Galician: cámara (gl) f Georgian: ფოტოაპარატი (poṭoaṗaraṭi) German: Fotoapparat (de) m, Kamera (de) f Greek: φωτογραφική μηχανή (el) f (fotografikí michaní) Gujarati: કેમેરા (kemerā) Haitian Creole: kodak Hausa: kyamara (ha) Hebrew: מַצְלֵמָה (he) f (matslemá) Hindi: कैमरा m (kaimrā) Hungarian: kamera (hu), fényképezőgép (hu) Icelandic: myndavél (is) f Ido: fotografilo (io) Indonesian: kamera (id), tustel (id) Irish: ceamara (ga) m, grianghrafadán m Italian: fotocamera (it) f, macchina fotografica (it) f Japanese: カメラ (ja) (kamera), 写真機 (ja) (しゃしんき, shashinki) Kannada: ಕ್ಯಾಮೆರಾ (kyāmerā) Kazakh: фотоаппарат (fotoapparat), камера (kamera) Khmer: គ្រឿងថត (krɨəng thɑɑt), ម៉ាស៊ីនថតរូប (maasɨn thɑɑt ruup) Korean: 카메라 (ko) (kamera), 사진기(寫眞機) (ko) (sajin'gi) Ktunaxa: k̓ituqǂiǂqamunamnam Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: kamera (ku) f Kyrgyz: фотоаппарат (ky) (fotoapparat), камера (ky) (kamera) Ladin: pultradoia f Lao: ກ້ອງຖ່າຍຮູບ (lo) (kǭng thāi hūp), ກ້ອງຊັກຮູບ (kǭng sak hūp) Latvian: fotoaparāts m Limburgish: camera (li) m Lithuanian: fotoaparatas m Luhya: ekamera Macedonian: фотоапара́т m (fotoaparát), камера f (kamera) Malay: kamera (ms) Malayalam: ഛായാഗ്രാഹി (ml) (chāyāgrāhi) Manx: camerey m, shamraig f Māori: kāmera, pūwhakaahua Marathi: कॅमेरा (kĕmerā) Mongolian: Cyrillic: зургийн аппарат (mn) (zurgiin apparat), фото аппарат (foto apparat), камер (mn) (kamer) Nepali: क्यामेरा (kyāmerā) Norman: quéméreu m, caméra m Norwegian: Bokmål: kamera (no) n, fotoapparat n Nynorsk: kamera n, fotoapparat n Ojibwe: mazinaakizigan Pannonian Rusyn: фотоапарат m (fotoaparat), камера f (kamera) Pashto: کامره (ps) f (kāmra), کېمره f (kemra), کمره f (kemra) Persian: Dari: کَمْرَه (kamra) Iranian Persian: دورْبین (durbin), کامِرا (kâmerâ) Polish: aparat fotograficzny (pl) m Portuguese: câmara fotográfica f (Portugal), câmera fotográfica f (Brazil), máquina fotográfica (pt) f Punjabi: ਕੈਮਰਾ (kaimrā) Romanian: aparat foto, aparat fotografic (ro) n, cameră foto n Russian: фотоаппара́т (ru) m (fotoapparát), ка́мера (ru) f (kámera), фотока́мера (ru) f (fotokámera) Scottish Gaelic: camara m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: фотоапа̀ра̄т m, ка̀мера f Latin: fotoapàrāt (sh) m, kàmera (sh) f Sicilian: màchina fotuggràfica f Sinhalese: කැමරාව (kæmarāwa) Slovak: fotoaparát m Slovene: fotoaparat m Spanish: cámara (es) f, cámara fotográfica (es) f, fotocámara f, kódak f (Peru), lente (es) f (Nicaragua), kodak f (America) Swahili: kamera (sw) Swedish: kamera (sv) c Tagalog: kamera (tl), kodak Tajik: фотоаппарат (fotoapparat), суратгирак (suratgirak), камера (kamera), аксбардорак (aksbardorak), дурбини аккосӣ (durbin-i akkosi) Tamil: கேமரா (kēmarā) Telugu: కెమెరా (kemerā) Thai: กล้องถ่ายรูป (th) (glɔ̂ng-tàai-rûup), กล้องถ่ายภาพ (glɔ̂ng-tàai-pâap), กล้อง (th) (glɔ̂ng) Tibetan: པར་ཆས (par chas), དཔར་ཆས (dpar chas) Tigrinya: ካመራ (kamära) Turkish: fotoğraf makinesi (tr) Turkmen: fotoapparat, kamera Ukrainian: фотоапара́т m (fotoaparát), ка́мера (uk) f (kámera), фотока́мера f (fotokámera) Unami: lèkhasitunk Urdu: کَیمْرَہ m (kaimra), کَیمْرا m (kaimrā), عَکَاسَہ m ('akāsa) Uyghur: فوتو ئاپپارات (foto apparat), كامېرا (kamëra) Uzbek: fotoapparat (uz), kamera (uz) Vietnamese: máy hình, máy chụp hình, máy chụp ảnh, máy ảnh (vi), ca-mê-ra Welsh: camera (cy) m Yami: sisiva Yiddish: אַפּאַראַט m (aparat), פֿאָטאָגראַפֿישער אַפּאַראַט m (fotografisher aparat), פֿאָטאָאַפּאַראַט m (fotoaparat), קאַמערע f (kamere)

movie camera

Afrikaans: kamera (af) Albanian: kamerë (sq) f, videokamerë f Amharic: ካሜራ (kamera) Arabic: كَامِيرَا (ar) f (kāmērā), كَامِيرَا فِيدِيُو f (kāmērā fīdiyū), آلَةُ تَصْوِيرِ فِيدِيُو f (ʔālatu taṣwīri fīdiyū) South Levantine Arabic: آلة تصوير (ʔālet taṣwīr) Aramaic: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܨܲܘܪܵܢܝܼܬ ܙܘܼܠܚܸܙܘܵܐ f (mṣawrānīt zulḥizwā), ܟܵܡܝܼܪܵܐ f (kāmīrā), ܣܩܹܘܵܐ ܕܨܲܝܵܪܘܼܬܵܐ m (sqēwā d-ṣayyārutā) Armenian: տեսախցիկ (hy) (tesaxcʻik) Asturian: cámara f Azerbaijani: kamera, videokamera Belarusian: відэака́мера f (videakámjera), ка́мера f (kámjera) Bengali: ক্যামেরা (bn) (kêmera), ভিডিও ক্যামেরা (bhiḍiō kêmera) Bulgarian: ка́мера f (kámera), ви́деока́мера f (vídeokámera) Catalan: càmera de vídeo (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 攝影機 / 摄影机 (zh) (shèyǐngjī), (camcorder) 攝像機 / 摄像机 (zh) (shèxiàngjī) Czech: kamera (cs) f, videokamera (cs) f Danish: kamera (da) n, videokamera (da) n Dutch: camera (nl) m, videocamera (nl) f Esperanto: kamerao Estonian: kaamera (et), videokaamera Finnish: kamera (fi), elokuvakamera (fi), videokamera (fi) French: caméra (fr) f Galician: videocámara (gl) f, cámara (gl) f Georgian: კამერა (ḳamera) German: Videokamera (de) f, Kamera (de) f Greek: βιντεοκάμερα (el) f (vinteokámera) Hebrew: מַצְלֵמָה (he) f (matslemá), מַצְלֵמַת וִידֵאוֹ (he) f (matslemát víde'o) Hindi: वीडियो कैमरा m (vīḍiyo kaimrā) Hungarian: kamera (hu), videókamera Icelandic: myndavél (is) f, upptökuvél f, kvikmyndavél (is) f Ido: filmregistrilo Indonesian: kamera video Irish: ceamara (ga) m, ceamara scannán m, físcheamara m Italian: videocamera (it) f, telecamera (it) f Japanese: ビデオカメラ (ja) (bideokamera), カメラ (ja) (kamera) Kazakh: камера (kamera), бейнекамера (beinekamera) Khmer: កាមេរ៉ា (kaameiraa), ម៉ាស៊ីនថតកុន (maasɨn thɑɑt kon), ម៉ាស៊ីនថតវីដេអូ (maasɨn thɑɑt viideeʼou) Korean: 비디오 카메라 (bidio kamera), 카메라 (ko) (kamera) Kyrgyz: камера (ky) (kamera), видео камера (video kamera) Lao: ກ້ອງວິດີໂອ (kǭng wi dī ʼō) Latvian: kamera f, kinokamera f, videokamera f Lithuanian: kamera f, vaizdo kamera f Macedonian: камера f (kamera), видеокамера f (videokamera) Māori: kāmera, pū whakaahua Mongolian: Cyrillic: камер (mn) (kamer), видео камер (video kamer) Norman: quéméreu m (Jersey), caméra m (Jersey) Norwegian: Bokmål: kamera (no) n, videokamera n Polish: kamera (pl) f, kamera wideo f Portuguese: videocâmara f (Portugal), videocâmera f (Brazil) Russian: видеока́мера (ru) f (videokámera), ка́мера (ru) f (kámera) Scottish Gaelic: camara m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ка̀мера f, видеока̀мера f Latin: kàmera (sh) f, videokàmera (sh) f Sicilian: vidiucàmmira f Slovak: kamera f, videokamera f Slovene: kamera f, videokamera f Spanish: videocámara f, cámara videográfica f Swahili: kamera (sw) Swedish: videokamera (sv), filmkamera (sv) Tajik: камера (kamera), видеокамера (videokamera) Thai: กล้องถ่ายวิดีโอ (glɔ̂ng-tàai-wí-dii-oo), กล้องวิดีโอ (glɔ̂ng-wí-dii-oo) Turkish: kamera (tr) Turkmen: kamera, wideokamera Ukrainian: відеока́мера f (videokámera), ка́мера (uk) f (kámera) Uyghur: كامېرا (kamëra) Uzbek: kamera (uz), videokamera Vietnamese: máy quay phim, máy quay, máy ghi hình, ca-mê-ra, máy quay vi-đê-ô Yiddish: קאַמערע f (kamere)

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Interlingua: (please verify) camera Latin: (please verify) camera photographica f, (please verify) machina photographica

Further reading

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• 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

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• Macrae, Macera

Dutch

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ˈkaː.mə.raː/

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• Hyphenation: ca‧me‧ra

Noun

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

1. camera

Derived terms

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• beveiligingscamera
• cameralens
• cameraman
• cameraploeg
• cameraval
• cameravrouw
• digitale camera
• fotocamera
• spiegelreflexcamera
• videocamera

Related terms

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• camcorder
• kamer
• webcam

Descendants

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• Afrikaans: kamera
• → Indonesian: kamera

French

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Pronunciation

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• Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)):

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Verb

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camera

1. third-person singular simple future of camer

Interlingua

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Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ˈka.me.ra/

Noun

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camera (plural cameras)

1. room, chamber

Italian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ˈka.me.ra/

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• Rhymes: -amera
• Hyphenation: cà‧me‧ra

Noun

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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

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• camera d'aria
• camera da letto
• camera oscura
• camerare
• cameriere
• fotocamera
• musica da camera
• telecamera
• unicamerale
• unicamerismo
• videocamera

Related terms

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• camerlengo

Descendants

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

Anagrams

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• arcame, macera

Ladin

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Etymology

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From Latin camera.

Noun

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camera f (plural cameres)

1. chamber, room

Latin

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Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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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

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First-declension noun.

singular	plural
nominative	camera	camerae
genitive	camerae	camerārum
dative	camerae	camerīs
accusative	cameram	camerās
ablative	camerā	camerīs
vocative	camera	camerae

Derived terms

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• 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

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Many forms are from the variant camara.

• Padanian:
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Friulian: cjamare
    • Ladin: camera
    • Romansh: chombra, chambra, combra, tgombra
  • Venetan: canbra, cànbera, càmera, càmara
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: camera
    • → Arabic: قمرة (qamara, qamra)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: قامره, قماره
      • Turkish: kamara
      • → Armenian: խամառա (xamaṙa)
    • → Serbo-Croatian: kamara / камара
  • Gallurese: cambara
  • Sassarese: camara
  • Sicilian: càmmara, càmmira
    • → Maltese: kamra
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: chambre (see there for further descendants)
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: cambra
  • Old Occitan: cambra, chambra
    • Occitan: cambra, chambra
• West Iberian:
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: cámara
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: camara
    • Galician: cámara
    • Portuguese: câmara, cambra (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Spanish: cambra
    • Spanish: cambra (obsolete)

Borrowings

• → Albanian: kamerë
• → Amharic: ካሜራ (kamera)
• → Azerbaijani: kamera
• → Belarusian: камера (kamjera)
• → Bole: kemara
• → Bulgarian: камера (kamera)
• → Cornish: kamera
• → Proto-West Germanic: *kamarā (see there for further descendants)
• → Crimean Tatar: kamera
• → Georgian: კამერა (ḳamera)
• → Greek: κάμαρα (kámara) (see there for further descendants)
• → Hungarian: kamara
• → Indonesian: kamera
• → Kazakh: камера (kamera)
• → Kyrgyz: камера (kamera)
• → Latvian: kamera
• → Lithuanian: kamera, kambarys
• → Norwegian: kamera
• → Polish: kamera
• → Romanian: cameră
• → Russian: ка́мера (kámera) (see there for further descendants)
• → Serbo-Croatian: kamera / камера
• → Proto-Slavic: *komora
  • East Slavic
    • → Russian: камора (kamora)
    • → Ukrainian: комора (komora)
  • South Slavic
    • → Macedonian: комора (komora)
    • → Serbo-Croatian: komora / комора
  • West Slavic
    • → Czech: komora
    • → Polish: komora
    • → Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: komora Upper Sorbian: komora
  • → Romanian: comoară
• → Old Spanish: camara (semi-learned, or from Old Portuguese)
  • Spanish: cámara
• → Tajik: камера (kamera)
• → Tigrinya: ካመራ (kamära)
• → Turkmen: kamera
• → Ukrainian: камера (kamera)
• → Uyghur: كامېرا (kamëra)
• → Uzbek: kamera

References

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• “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, 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

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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camerā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of camerō

Limburgish

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ˈkaː²məʀa/

Noun

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camera m (plural camera's, diminutive camerake)

1. (photography) camera

Derived terms

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• cameramaan (“cameraman”)

References

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• “camera”, in D'n Dictionair‎[2] (overall work in English, Dutch, and Limburgish), Limburgish Academy, 2007-present

Romanian

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Noun

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camera f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of cameră

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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

Noun

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camera f (plural cameras)

1. female equivalent of camero

Adjective

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camera f

1. feminine singular of camero

Welsh

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Etymology

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

Noun

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camera m (plural camerâu)

1. camera

Mutation

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radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
camera	gamera	nghamera	chamera

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

Further reading

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• 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