camara

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

Latin

Etymology 1

A collateral form of camera (noun), closer to their shared etymon, the Ancient Greek κᾰμᾰ́ρᾱ (kamárā). Although often associated with Vulgar Latin, it could also be found in some Classical Latin authors' works, as a 'learnèd' variant of the more usual camera.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ma.ra/, [ˈkämärä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ma.ra/, [ˈkäːmärä]

Noun

camara f (genitive camarae); first declension

1. Alternative form of camera

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	camara	camarae
Genitive	camarae	camarārum
Dative	camarae	camarīs
Accusative	camaram	camarās
Ablative	camarā	camarīs
Vocative	camara	camarae

Descendants

• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Gallurese: cambara
  • Sassarese: camara
  • Sicilian: càmmara
    • → Maltese: kamra
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • Friulian: cjamare
• Venetian: càmara
• West Iberian
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: cámara
  • Old Portuguese: camara
    • Galician: cámara
    • Portuguese: câmara, cambra (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Spanish:
    • Spanish: cámara
• → Bulgarian: камара (kamara)
• → Greek: κάμαρα (kámara)
  • → Aromanian: cãmarã
  • → Romanian: cămară
• → Hungarian: kamara

References

• “camara”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• “camara”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• camara 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)
• cămăra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 249/2
• “camara”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “camara”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “camara”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “camara” on page 262 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “camara”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 117/1

Etymology 2

A regularly conjugated form of camarō (verb).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ma.raː/, [ˈkämäräː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ma.ra/, [ˈkäːmärä]

Verb

camarā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of camarō

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Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin camara, from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ma.ɾa/

Noun

camara f

1. room, chamber
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, , E codex, cantiga 312 (facsimile):

     ⁊ poren dẽtr en ſa Caſa lle deu en que a lauraſſe / hũa Camara fremoſa

     and for this reason he gave him a beautiful chamber inside his house in which to carve it

Descendants

• Galician: cámara
• Portuguese: câmara, cambra (see there for further descendants)

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Portuguese

Noun

camara f (plural camaras)

1. Obsolete spelling of câmara