camaeus
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Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- cadmeus, camahuta, camahutus, caman', camantus, camau, camautus, camehu, cameu, cammaeus, cathmaieu, chamah, kaadmau, kamacu, kamaeta, kamahutum, kamahutus, kathmath'
Etymology[edit]
Unknown, first attested 1295. Perhaps borrowed from Classical Persian خماهن (xumāhan, “agate”) or Arabic قَمَائِل (qamāʔil, “buds of a flower”).[1][2][3] Compare French camaïeu.
Noun[edit]
camaeus m (genitive camaeī); second declension
- (Medieval Latin) cameo (jewellery carved in relief)
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | camaeus | camaeī |
| Genitive | camaeī | camaeōrum |
| Dative | camaeō | camaeīs |
| Accusative | camaeum | camaeōs |
| Ablative | camaeō | camaeīs |
| Vocative | camaee | camaeī |
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- camaeus 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)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “camahutus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill
- Plantzos, Dimitros (1996) “Hellenistic Cameos: Problems of Classification and Chronology”, in Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, volume 41, number 1, pages 115–116
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