camaraderie

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French camaraderie, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish camarada, from cámara (“bedroom”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin camera (“a chamber”); see chamber. Literally “one with whom one shares one’s bedroom”. Compare comrade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɑməˈɹɑdəɹi/
• IPA^(key): /ˌkæməˈɹɑːdəɹi/

Noun

camaraderie (countable and uncountable, plural camaraderies)

1. Close friendship in a group of friends or teammates.
   • 2016 February 8, Marwan Bishara, “Why Obama fails the leadership test in the Middle East”, in Al Jazeera English‎^[1]:

     And regardless of their differences, they always act with such camaraderie and complicity among themselves.

2. A spirit of familiarity and closeness
   • 1838, Caulincourt, Napoleon and his Times, Volume 1, page 175:

     There was not one of Napoleon's intimate friends, however high in rank, who would have ventured to indulge in the sort of camaraderie which was kept up between the Emperor and his old moustaches.

Synonyms

• chumminess
• comradery
• comradeship
• comradeliness

Translations

close friendship in a group of friends

• Catalan: camaraderia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 友情 (zh) (yǒuqíng), 友誼／友谊 (zh) (yǒuyì), 友谊 (zh) (yǒuyì)

• Danish: kammerateri n
• Dutch: kameraadschap (nl) f
• French: camaraderie (fr) f
• German: Kameradschaft (de) f
• Greek: συναδελφικότητα (el) f (synadelfikótita), συντροφικότητα (el) f (syntrofikótita)
• Hungarian: barátság (hu)
• Icelandic: félagsandi m, góður kunningsskapur m, góð samskipti n pl
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 友情 (ja) (ゆうじょう, yūjō)
• Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: kameraderi (no) n

• Portuguese: camaradagem (pt) f, camaradaria f
• Russian: това́рищество (ru) n (továriščestvo), дру́жба (ru) f (drúžba)
• Serbo-Croatian: камарадерија f, kamaraderija f
• Spanish: camaradería (es) f
• Swedish: kamratskap (sv) n

a spirit of familiarity and closeness

• Catalan: camaraderia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 友誼／友谊 (zh) (yǒuyì), 友谊 (zh) (yǒuyì)

• Danish: kammerateri n
• French: camaraderie (fr) f
• Greek: συναδελφικότητα (el) f (synadelfikótita)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: bajtársiasság (hu), összetartás (hu)
• Portuguese: camaradagem (pt) f, camaradaria f
• Russian: това́рищество (ru) n (továriščestvo)
• Spanish: camaradería (es) f

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French

Etymology

From camarade (from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish camarada (“roommate”), from cámara (“bedroom”), from camera (“room”), from καμάρα (kamára, “vaulted chamber”)) +‎ -erie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ma.ʁa.dʁi/

Noun

camaraderie f (plural camaraderies)

1. camaraderie

Further reading

• “camaraderie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.