camelus

See also: Camelus

Latin

Camelus bactrianus

Alternative forms

• camellus (reanalyzed as a diminutive)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kaˈmeː.lus/, [käˈmeːɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈme.lus/, [käˈmɛːlus]

Noun

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

1. a camel

Declension

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

• Strūthiō camēlus

Related terms

• camēlārius
• camelelasia
• camēlīnus
• camēlopardus
• camēlopardalis, camēlopardalus
• camēlopodion
• camēlōtus, camēlētus
• hippocamēlus

Descendants

Inherited from the form 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

Borrowed:

• → 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

Further reading

• “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.