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caminus

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Latin

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Ancient Greek κάμῑνος (kámīnos).

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    camīnus m (genitive camīnī); second declension

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

    Declension

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    Second-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative camīnus camīnī
    genitive camīnī camīnōrum
    dative camīnō camīnīs
    accusative camīnum camīnōs
    ablative camīnō camīnīs
    vocative camīne camīnī

    Derived terms

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    Descendants

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    References

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    Further reading

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    • 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, 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