cam

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Translations 1.2.1.2 Derived terms 1.2.1.3 External links 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.1.1 Derived terms 1.3.1.2 Translations 1.4 External links 2 Acholi 2.1 Noun 3 Irish 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Adjective 3.2.1 Declension 3.2.2 Mutation 4 Romanian 4.1 Etymology 4.2 Adverb 5 Scottish Gaelic 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Adjective 5.2.1 Declension 6 Turkish 6.1 Etymology 6.2 Noun 7 Vietnamese 7.1 Pronunciation 7.2 Noun 7.2.1 Derived terms 7.3 Adjective 7.3.1 Derived terms

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [kæm], SAMPA: /k{m/
• Rhymes: -æm

[edit] Etymology 1

Recorded since the 16th century, from Dutch kam (“‘cog of a wheel; originally, comb’”) (cognate with English comb, and preserved in modern Dutch compounds such as kamrad, kamwiel (“‘cog wheel’”))

[edit] Noun

cam (plural cams)

1. A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
2. (rock-climbing) A spring-loaded device for effecting a temporary belay in a rock crevice.
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[edit] Translations

[edit] Derived terms

• overhead cam

[edit] External links

• Cam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

[edit] Etymology 2

From camera, from the first part of Latin camera obscura (“‘dark chamber’”), itself from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamara), “‘vaulted chamber’”), from Proto-Indo-European *kam- (“‘to arch’”)

[edit] Noun

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cam (plural cams)

1. (informal) The shortened form of camera

[edit] Derived terms

• camcorder
• webcam

[edit] Translations

[edit] External links

• cam in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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[edit] Noun

cam

1. food

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[edit] Irish

[edit] Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA: [kaumˠ]
• (Connacht) IPA: [kɑːmˠ] (Galway); IPA: [kamˠ] (Mayo)
• (Ulster) IPA: [kamˠ]

[edit] Adjective

cam

1. crooked

[edit] Declension

First declension; forms of the positive degree:

Case	Masculine singular	Feminine singular	Plural
Nominative	cam	cam	cama
Vocative	caim	cam	cama
Genitive	caim	caime	cam
Dative	cam	cam archaic caim	cama

Comparative/superlative: caime

[edit] Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cam	cham	gcam
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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[edit] Romanian

[edit] Etymology

Latin quam

[edit] Adverb

cam

1. approximately, a little

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[edit] Scottish Gaelic

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /kaːm/

[edit] Adjective

cam

1. crooked, askew

[edit] Declension

First declension; forms of the positive degree:

Case	Masculine singular	Feminine singular	Plural
Nominative	cam	cham	cama
Vocative	chaim	chaim	cama
Genitive	chaim	chaim/caime	cam
Dative	cham	chaim	cama

Comparative/superlative: caime

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[edit] Turkish

[edit] Etymology

From Persian

[edit] Noun

cam

1. A glass

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Pronunciation

• SAMPA: /ka:m/
• IPA: /kaːm/
• SAMPROSA: M[kaːm]

[edit] Noun

cam

1. ([quả / trái] cam) orange (the fruit)

[edit] Derived terms

• cây cam - orange tree

[edit] Adjective

cam

1. ([màu] cam) of the colour orange
2. made of oranges

[edit] Derived terms

• sách màu cam - orange book (literally: "orange-coloured book")
• nước cam - orange juice (literally: "orange water")