καμάρα

See also: κάμαρα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κᾰμᾰ́ρη (kamárē) — Ionic

Etymology

An Old Iranian borrowing, from Proto-Iranian *kamarā- (“something curved”), from *kamárati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kmárati, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em- (“to bend, curve”).

Compare Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬨𐬀𐬭𐬁 (kamarā, “girdle”), Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (kml /⁠kamar⁠/, “waist; belt, girdle”), Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫞𐫖𐫡 (qmr /⁠kamar⁠/, “vault”), Persian کمر (kamar, “waist; belt, girdle; arch, cupola, dome, arched bridge”) and the Old Armenian loanword կամար (kamar, “girdle; arch, vault”). The Hesychian gloss καμαρίς (kamarís, “woman's ornament”) is also from Iranian.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ka.má.raː/ → /kaˈma.ra/ → /kaˈma.ra/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.má.raː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kaˈma.ra/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kaˈma.ra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kaˈma.ra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kaˈma.ra/

Noun

κᾰμᾰ́ρᾱ • (kamárā) f (genitive κᾰμᾰ́ρᾱς); first declension

1. Anything with an arched cover such as a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber; vault, span.

Declension

First declension of ἡ κᾰμᾰ́ρᾱ; τῆς κᾰμᾰ́ρᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κᾰμᾰ́ρᾱ hē kamárā	τὼ κᾰμᾰ́ρᾱ tṑ kamárā	αἱ κᾰμᾰ́ραι hai kamárai
Genitive	τῆς κᾰμᾰ́ρᾱς tês kamárās	τοῖν κᾰμᾰ́ραιν toîn kamárain	τῶν κᾰμᾰρῶν tôn kamarôn
Dative	τῇ κᾰμᾰ́ρᾳ têi kamárāi	τοῖν κᾰμᾰ́ραιν toîn kamárain	ταῖς κᾰμᾰ́ραις taîs kamárais
Accusative	τὴν κᾰμᾰ́ρᾱν tḕn kamárān	τὼ κᾰμᾰ́ρᾱ tṑ kamárā	τᾱ̀ς κᾰμᾰ́ρᾱς tā̀s kamárās
Vocative	κᾰμᾰ́ρᾱ kamárā	κᾰμᾰ́ρᾱ kamárā	κᾰμᾰ́ραι kamárai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: καμάρα (kamára)
• → Arabic: كَمَرَة (kamara), قُمْرَة (qumra)
• → Latin: camara, camera (see there for further descendants)
• ⇒ Italian: Cammarata
• →? Old Georgian: კამარაჲ (ḳamaray)
  • →? Georgian: კამარა (ḳamara)

Further reading

• “καμάρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “καμάρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• καμάρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• καμάρα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 629–630