cama

See also: Cama and čama

English

Etymology

Blend of camel +‎ llama.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːmə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːmə
• Homophone: comma (accents with the father-bother merger), karma (nonrhotic accents)

Noun

cama (plural camas)

1. A hybrid animal produced by breeding a camel and a llama.

Anagrams

• AACM, ACMA, MCAA, maca

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Asturian

Etymology

From Late Latin cama.

Noun

cama f (plural cames)

1. bed (piece of furniture)

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Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin gamba (“horse's hock”), from Ancient Greek καμπή (kampḗ, “bend”). Doublet of gamba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈka.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈka.ma]

• Audio:

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Noun

cama f (plural cames)

1. leg

   Synonym: gamba

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French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Verb

cama

1. third-person singular past historic of camer

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Galician

A cama in an abandoned house

Etymology

From Old Galician / Old Galician-Portuguese cama, from Late Latin cama (6th century, Isidore of Seville), probably from .

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɑmɐ]

Noun

cama f (plural camas)

1. bed
   • 1484, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 127:

     Iten, mando mays á dita Contança Gonçales, miña muller, a quarta parte da adega dos Vrancos, por quanto eu e ela conpramos a metade da dita adega a Meen Suares Galinato, e mándolle mays a cuba en que teño o viño branco e mays outras duas cubas que son dentro ena dita adega aa maao esquerda, vasyas, que teñen cada una doze moyos de lagar, e mays lle mando una cama de roupa con quatro cabeçaás e un colchón e un almadraque e con suas sabaas e media duzia d'almofadas e con hua manta de picote, e se ouver em casa un par de colchas, que aja ela una delas.

     Item, I devise said Constanza González, my wife, a fourth of the wine cellar of Os Brancos, since we both bought a half of it from Men Suarez Galiñato; and I also bequeath a cask in which I have the white wine, and also two other casks that are inside that wine cellar, on the left, empty, each one having twelve modii; and also bequeath to her a clothed bed with four pillows and a mattress and a mat, and with its sheets and half a dozen cushions and a blanket of coarse linen, and if there is in the house a pair of quilts, she should have one of them

   Synonym: leito

2. platform of a cart
3. garden plot

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cama”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cama”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cama”, 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), “cama”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cama”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkamˠə/

Adjective

cama

1. nominative/vocative/dative/strong genitive plural of cam

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cama	chama	gcama
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Latin

Etymology

Possibly from Ancient Greek χαμαί (khamaí) (close to the ground) as Isidorus said: "Cama est brevis [lectus] et circa terram; Graeci enim χαμαὶ breve dicunt" (Cama is a little [bed] close to the ground; the Greeks call χαμαὶ to small things). Other etymologies can include Celtic (Gaulish) or Iberian origin.

Noun

cama f (genitive camae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) bed
   • ca. 600, Isidorus Hispalensis [Isidore of Seville], Etymologiae, 19, 22, 29 & 20, 11, 2. In: Isidori Hispalensis episcopi etymologiarum sive originum libri XX. Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit W. M. Linday. Tomus II libros XI–XX continens, Oxonium, 1911:

     Camisias vocari quod in his dormimus in camis, id est in stratis nostris.

     Cama est brevis et circa terram; Graeci enim χαμαὶ breve dicunt.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cama	camae
Genitive	camae	camārum
Dative	camae	camīs
Accusative	camam	camās
Ablative	camā	camīs
Vocative	cama	camae

Descendants

• Asturian: cama
• Old Galician-Portuguese: cama
• Spanish: cama
  • → Bikol Central: kama
  • → Maranao: kama
  • → Tagalog: kama

Further reading

• “cama”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cama in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Old Irish

Adjective

cama

1. Alternative spelling of camma

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
cama	chama	cama pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Late Latin cama, first attested in Isidore. Likely a borrowing from an Iberian substrate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ma/

Noun

cama f (plural camas)

1. bed

Descendants

• Galician: cama
• Portuguese: cama
  • → Chichewa: kama
  • → Kabuverdianu: kama

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Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin camba, itself from Ancient Greek καμπή (kampḗ). Eventually lost, likely due to homophony with cama (“bed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkama/

Noun

cama f (plural camas)

1. leg, thigh

References

• Fulk, Randal C. 1980. Old Spanish ''tiesta'' and ''cama''. Romance Notes 20. 441–447.

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Portuguese

cama

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cama, from Late Latin cama, first attested in Isidore. Likely a borrowing from an Iberian substrate.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐ̃.mɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐ̃.mɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐ.ma/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐ.mɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐ.mɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈka.mɐ/

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐmɐ, (Brazil) -ɐ̃mɐ
• Hyphenation: ca‧ma

Noun

cama f (plural camas)

2. bed (furniture for sleeping on)

   Synonyms: leito, ninho

Derived terms

• acamar
• caminha (diminutive)
• camona (augmentative)
• de cama
• saco-cama

Descendants

• → Chichewa: kama
• → Kabuverdianu: kama

See also

• quarto

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Spanish

cama

Etymology

From Late Latin cama, first attested in Isidore. Likely a borrowing from an Iberian substrate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkama/ [ˈka.ma]

• Audio (Latin America):

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Noun

cama f (plural camas)

1. bed

   Synonym: (less common) lecho

Derived terms

• antecama
• cama abatible
• cama de agua
• cama de matrimonio
• cama de tijera
• cama doble
• cama elástica
• cama individual
• cama matrimonial
• cama nido
• cama plegable
• cama turca
• camilla
• camita
• diosa de la cama
• en cama
• en la cama
• hacer la cama
• mojar la cama
• ropa de cama
• sofá cama

 

Descendants

• → Bikol Central: kama
• → Maranao: kama
• → Tagalog: kama

Further reading

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