cama

See also: Cama, čama, and сама

English

Etymology

Blend of camel +‎ llama.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːmə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːmə
• Homophones: comma (father-bother merger); karma (non-rhotic)

Noun

cama (plural camas)

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

See also

• cama fox

 

Anagrams

• AACM, ACMA, AMAC, MCAA, maca

Asturian

Etymology

From Late Latin cama.

Noun

cama f (plural cames)

1. bed (piece of furniture)

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited 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

2. stem, stalk, stipe (of a plant)
3. gaskin (of a horse)

Derived terms

• cama-roig
• cama-sec
• cama-segat
• camagroc
• camal
• camejar
• camella
• cameta

 

Further reading

• “cama” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish cama, from Late Latin cama.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkama/, [ˈka.ma]

Noun

cama

1. bed

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Verb

cama

1. third-person singular past historic of camer

Galician

A cama in an abandoned house

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cama, from Late Latin cama (6th century, Isidore of Seville), probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

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

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.

Latin

Etymology

Isidore, quoted below, folk-etymologises a dubious Greek origin. Still, no solid alternative is available. The distribution of its descendants may suggest it was borrowed from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkama/

Noun

cama f (genitive camae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. 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.

     They are called bed-shirts because in these we sleep on beds, that is, on our beds.
     A bed is low and near the ground, for the Greeks say χαμαὶ for "low".

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
• Mirandese: cama
• Old Galician-Portuguese: cama
  • Galician: cama
  • Portuguese: cama (see there for further descendants)
• Spanish: cama (see there for further descendants)

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.

Old Galician-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 (see there for further descendants)

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.

Old Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin camba. Eventually lost, likely due to homophony with cama (“bed”). Cf. Catalan cama (“leg”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkama/

Noun

cama f (plural camas)

1. leg
2. thigh

References

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

Portuguese

cama

Etymology

Inherited 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
• cama de casal
• cama elástica
• caminha (diminutive)
• camona (augmentative)
• de cama
• fazer a cama
• levantar do lado errado da cama
• roupa de cama
• saco-cama
• saco-cama
• sofá-cama

 

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: kama
• → Chichewa: kama

See also

• quarto

Spanish

cama

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkama/ [ˈka.ma]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: ca‧ma

Noun

cama f (plural camas)

1. bed

   Synonyms: catre (Philippines), lecho (less common)

Derived terms

• antecama
• caer en cama
• caer en la cama
• cama abatible
• cama de agua
• cama de galgos
• cama de matrimonio
• cama de tijera
• cama doble
• cama elástica
• cama individual
• cama matrimonial
• cama nido
• cama plegable
• cama turca
• camilla
• camita
• casa de camas
• colgadura de cama
• diosa de la cama
• en cama
• en la cama
• estar en cama
• guardar cama
• guardar la cama
• hacer la cama
• irse a la cama
• mojar la cama
• ropa de cama
• saltar de la cama
• salto de cama
• sofá cama
• tender la cama

 

Descendants

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

Further reading

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