caminus

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κάμῑνος (kámīnos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kaˈmiː.nus/, [käˈmiːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈmi.nus/, [käˈmiːnus]

Noun

camīnus m (genitive camīnī); second declension

1. fireplace
2. furnace, forge
3. (poetic) Vulcan's forge
4. (figuratively) fire

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	camīnus	camīnī
Genitive	camīnī	camīnōrum
Dative	camīnō	camīnīs
Accusative	camīnum	camīnōs
Ablative	camīnō	camīnīs
Vocative	camīne	camīnī

Derived terms

• camīnō
• camīnāta

Descendants

• Dalmatian:
  • camain
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: caminu
  • Italian: camino
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: cjamin
  • Istriot: cameîn
  • Ligurian: camìn
  • Romansch: chamin, tgamin
  • Venetian: camin
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: chumin, chemin, chemeu
  • Old Occitan: camin
• Unsorted borrowings:
  • → Czech: kamna
  • → Danish: kamin
  • → Hebrew: קמין
  • → Old High German: kemîn
    • Middle High German: kamîn
      • Cimbrian: khémming
      • German: Kamin (see there for further descendants)
  • → Swedish: kamin
    • → Finnish: kamiina

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “camīnus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 139

Further reading

• “caminus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “caminus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• caminus 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)
• caminus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “caminus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “caminus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “camínus” in Leo F. Stelten, editor (1995), Dictionary of ecclesiastical Latin: with an appendix of Latin expressions defined and clarified, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, page 34