cambra

See also: Cambra

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára). Compare Occitan cambra and chambra. Doublet of càmera, a latinism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkam.bɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkam.bɾa]

• Audio:

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Noun

cambra f (plural cambres)

1. room
2. bedroom
3. chamber
4. (euphemistic) stool

Derived terms

• anar de cambra
• antecambra
• avantcambra
• cambra de gas
• cambrejar
• cambrer
• cambres clares
• cambreta
• cambró
• de cambra
• recambra

 

Further reading

• “cambra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cambra”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “cambra” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cambra” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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French

Verb

cambra

1. third-person singular past historic of cambrer

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Galician

Etymology

Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *krampō (“cramp”). Cognate with Portuguese cãibra and Spanish calambre; see also French crampe. Compare also Italian cambra, French cambre, from a different origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkambɾa̝/

Noun

cambra m (plural cambras)

1. cramp (a painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled)

   Synonym: breca

Related terms

• grampa (“clamp”)
• grampo (“clamp”)

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cambra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cambra”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cambra”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cambre, from Picard or Norman, from , derived from Latin camur, camurus (“curved, bent”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkam.bra/
• Rhymes: -ambra
• Hyphenation: càm‧bra

Noun

cambra f (plural cambre)

1. cramp, clamp

   Synonym: grappa

Related terms

• cambretta

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkam.bra/, [ˈkämbrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkam.bra/, [ˈkämbrä]

Noun

cambra f (genitive cambrae); first declension

1. medieval spelling of camera

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cambra	cambrae
Genitive	cambrae	cambrārum
Dative	cambrae	cambrīs
Accusative	cambram	cambrās
Ablative	cambrā	cambrīs
Vocative	cambra	cambrae

References

• cambra 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) “cambra”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 118/1

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Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• chambra

Etymology

From Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára). Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French chambre.

Noun

cambra f (oblique plural cambras, nominative singular cambra, nominative plural cambras)

1. room, in particular a bedroom

Descendants

• Occitan: cambra, chambra

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “camera”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 20: Autres langues, page 130

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin camara, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára). Doublet of cámara.

Noun

cambra f (plural cambras)

1. (obsolete) room
2. (obsolete) bedroom

   Synonym: habitación

Further reading

• “cambra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014