camelus

Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search
See also: Camelus

Latin[edit]

Camelus bactrianus

Etymology[edit]

From Ancient Greek κάμηλος (kámēlos, camel), from a Semitic language; compare Arabic جَمَل(jamal) and Hebrew גָּמָל(gamál).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

camēlus m (genitive camēlī, feminine camēla); second declension

  1. A camel

Declension[edit]

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative camēlus camēlī
Genitive camēlī camēlōrum
Dative camēlō camēlīs
Accusative camēlum camēlōs
Ablative camēlō camēlīs
Vocative camēle camēlī

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Middle Dutch: kemel, cameel
  • Old Norse: kamell

From Vulgar Latin *camellus

References[edit]

  • camelus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • camelus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • camelus 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)
  • camelus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette