camello

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• camelo

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *camēllus, from Latin camēlus (additional /l/ due to influence from the ending -ĕllus, which did not however change the stressed vowel), from Ancient Greek κάμηλος (kámēlos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈmeʎo/

Noun

camello m (plural camellos)

1. camel
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 5v.

     Cataró ¬ vieró vna requa de paganos de los de ẏſmael. E vinien de galaat có ſos camellos cargados de mercaduras e ẏuá a egipto

     They looked up and saw a pagan caravan, of those of Ishmael. And they were coming from Gilead with their camels loaded with goods, and they were headed to Egypt.

Descendants

• Ladino: kameyo (Latin spelling)
• Spanish: camello

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Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish camello, from Vulgar Latin *camēllus, from Latin camēlus, from Ancient Greek κάμηλος (kámēlos), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *gamal-. More at camel.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kaˈmeʝo/, [kaˈme.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kaˈmeʝo/, [kaˈme.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /kaˈmeʎo/, [kaˈme.ʎo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kaˈmeʃo/, [kaˈme.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kaˈmeʒo/, [kaˈme.ʒo]

Audio (Colombia)

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Noun

camello m (plural camellos, feminine camella, feminine plural camellas)

1. camel

   Hyponym: dromedario

2. (informal) pusher, drug dealer

   Synonym: narcotraficante

   • 2019 March 11, “De Clint Eastwood siempre esperas más”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Existe algún momento divertido en las aventuras de este camello tardío.

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Alternative forms

• (camel): gamello (obsolete)

Derived terms

• acamellado
• camello bactriano
• camellón
• hacer de una pulga un camello

 

Descendants

• → Bikol Central: kamelyo
• → Tagalog: kamelyo

Further reading

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