caminus

Latin

Etymology

From From Proto-Slavic *kamy, Ancient Greek κάμῑνος (kámīnos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kaˈmiː.nus/, [käˈmiːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈmi.nus/, [käˈmiːnus]

Noun

1. furnace, forge
2. (poetic) Vulcan's forge
3. (figuratively) fire

Derived terms

• camīnō
• camīnāta

Descendants

• Corsican: caminu
• Czech: kamna (borrowed)
• Dalmatian: camain
• Danish: kamin (borrowed)
• English: chimney
• French: cheminée
• Friulian: cjamin
• German: Kamin (borrowed)
• Hebrew: קָמִין (borrowed)
• Istriot: cameîn

• Italian: camino
• Ligurian: camìn
• Romanian: cămin
• Romansch: chamin, tgamin
• Serbo-Croatian: kamin (borrowed)
• Slovak: komín (borrowed)
• Ukrainian: komyn (borrowed)
• Venetian: camin

See also

• cammīnus

References

• “caminus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “caminus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• caminus 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)
• caminus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “caminus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “caminus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “camínus” in Leo F. Stelten, editor (1995), Dictionary of ecclesiastical Latin: with an appendix of Latin expressions defined and clarified, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, page 34