camelus

See also: Camelus

Latin[edit]

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

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

→ Middle Dutch: kemel, cameel
- Dutch: kameel, kemel
  - Afrikaans: kameel
    - English: camel (South Africa)
→ Old Norse: kamell
- Danish: kamel
- Faroese: kamelur
- Norwegian:
  Bokmål: kamel
  
  Nynorsk: kamel
- Swedish: kamel

From Vulgar Latin *camellus

Asturian: camellu
Corsican: camellu
Italian: cammello
Ladin: camel
Navarro-Aragonese:
- Aragonese: camello
Old French: chamel, cameil, camuel
- Middle French: chameau
  - French: chameau
    - Haitian Creole: chamo
    - Volapük: jamod
  - Norman: chanmeau
  - Walloon: chamo
- Anglo-Norman: camel
  - → Middle English: camel, camell
    - English: camel
      - → Coeur d'Alene: keemel
  - → Old Irish: camall
    - Irish: camall
    - Scottish Gaelic: càmhal
Old Occitan:
- Catalan: camell
- Occitan: camèl
Old Galician-Portuguese: camelo
- Galician: camelo
- Portuguese: camelo (see there for further descendants)
Old Spanish: camello
- Ladino: gameyo (Latin spelling)
- Spanish: camello
  - → Bikol Central: kamelyo
  - → Tagalog: kamelyo
Sardinian: camellu
Sicilian: jamiḍḍu, gamiḍḍu
Venetian: camèło

“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