camerlingus
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Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Frankish *kamarling (“chamberlain”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ka.merˈlin.ɡus/, [kämɛrˈlʲɪŋɡʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ka.merˈlin.ɡus/, [kämerˈliŋɡus]
Noun[edit]
camerlingus m (genitive camerlingī); second declension[1][2]
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | camerlingus | camerlingī |
| Genitive | camerlingī | camerlingōrum |
| Dative | camerlingō | camerlingīs |
| Accusative | camerlingum | camerlingōs |
| Ablative | camerlingō | camerlingīs |
| Vocative | camerlinge | camerlingī |
Descendants[edit]
- Old French: chamberlein, chamberlain, chaumberlein, chambellan, chamberlayn, chamberlenc, chambreleyn
- Middle French: chambellan, chambellain, chamberlenc
- French: chambellan (see there for further descendants)
- → Middle English: chamberlayn, chamberlein, chaumberlein, chaumberleyn, chamberleyn, chamberlain
- English: chamberlain
- → Middle Armenian: ջամբռլայ (ǰambṙlay)
- Middle French: chambellan, chambellain, chamberlenc
- Old Occitan: camarlenc
- →? Old Catalan: camarleng
- Catalan: camarlenc
- → Spanish: camarlengo
- Occitan: camarlenc
- →? Old Catalan: camarleng
- Old Italian: camerlingo
- Italian: camerlengo
- → English: camerlengo
- → French: camerlingue
- Italian: camerlengo
References[edit]
- ^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “camerlengus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 120
- ^ camerlingus 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)