camminus

Latin

Alternative forms

• cāmīnus

Etymology

First attested in writing in the late 7th century in Spain. Borrowed from Gaulish *kamman, from Proto-Celtic *kanxsman; compare Celtiberian kamanom and Irish céim (“step, degree”).

Pronunciation

• (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance) IPA^(key): /kamˈminos/
• (Proto-Western-Romance) IPA^(key): /kaˈminos/

Noun

cammīnus m (genitive cammīnī); second declension (Early Medieval Latin)

1. way
2. path

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cammīnus	cammīnī
Genitive	cammīnī	cammīnōrum
Dative	cammīnō	cammīnīs
Accusative	cammīnum	cammīnōs
Ablative	cammīnō	cammīnīs
Vocative	cammīne	cammīnī

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: cammino
  • >? Sicilian: caminu (borrowed from Spanish?)
• North Italian:
  • Ligurian: camìn
  • Venetian: camìn, camin
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: camí
  • Occitan: camin, chamin
  • Old French: chemin, cemin, kemin
    • Middle French: chemin
      • French: chemin
    • Norman: ch'min (Guernsey), c'mîn (Jersey), quémîn
    • Walloon: tchimin
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: camino, camín
  • Asturian: camín, caminu
  • Extremaduran: caminu
  • Leonese: camín
  • Mirandese: cammino
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: caminho
    • Fala: camiñu
    • Galician: camiño
    • Portuguese: caminho (see there for further descendants)
  • Spanish: camino
• Vulgar Latin: *cammīnāre (see there for further descendants)

See also

• camīnus

References

• W. Meyer-Lübke: Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1911.