cámara

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See also: camara, Camara, Câmara, câmara, and cămară

Asturian[edit]

Noun[edit]

cámara f (plural cámares)

  1. camera

Galician[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Galician-Portuguese camara (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin camara, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “a vaulted chamber”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

cámara f (plural cámaras)

  1. chamber
    • c. 1450, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Historia de la Santa A. M. Iglesia de Santiago de Compostela, VII, p. 136:
      ítem mando que dentro enas ditas casas de miña morada seja apartadamente outra Cámara de libraría en que sejan postos todos meus libros en rroda et almarios
      Item, I order that, inside my houses where I reside, they build another chamber for library, and that they place in it all my books around in shelves
    1. namely, the main bedroom of a house
    2. the room used for deliberation by a legislature
    3. a enclosed space
    4. (archaic) toilet, bathroom
    5. (firearms) the area holding the ammunition round
  2. camera
  3. (nautical) cabin

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • “camara” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “camara” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “cámara” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “cámara” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old Spanish camara, borrowed from Vulgar Latin camara, variant of Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “something with an arched cover, a vaulted chamber”). Doublet of cambra.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈkamaɾa/ [ˈka.ma.ɾa]
  • Rhymes: -amaɾa
  • Syllabification: cá‧ma‧ra

Noun[edit]

cámara f (plural cámaras)

  1. room
    Synonym: cuarto
  2. camera
  3. chamber
  4. legislature
  5. inner tube
    Synonym: tripa
  6. (nautical) cabin
    Synonym: camarote
  7. bowel movement
    Synonym: deposición

Derived terms[edit]

Noun[edit]

cámara m or f by sense (plural cámaras)

  1. (cinematography) cameraman, camera operator (somebody who operates a movie camera or television camera)
    Synonym: camarógrafo

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