camminus

Latin

Alternative forms

• cāmīnus

Etymology

First attested in writing in the late 7th century in Spain. Borrowed from Gaulish; compare Celtiberian [Term?] (kamanom) and Irish céim (“step, degree”); from Proto-Celtic *kengeti, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (“to limp”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kamˈmiː.nus/, [kämˈmiːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kamˈmi.nus/, [kämˈmiːnus]

Noun

cammīnus m (genitive cammīnī); second declension

1. (Late Latin or Medieval Latin or Vulgar Latin) way

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

• Aragonese: camino, camín
• Asturian: camín, caminu
• Extremaduran: caminu
• French: chemin
• Italian: cammino
• Leonese: camín
• Ligurian: camìn
• Mirandese: cammino
• Norman: c'mîn
• Old Galician-Portuguese: camỹo, caminno
  • Galician: camiño
  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: kaminhu
  • Kabuverdianu: kaminhu
  • Papiamentu: kaminda
  • Portuguese: caminho
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: camí
  • Occitan: camin
• Spanish: camino
• Venetian: camìn, camin

See also

• camīnus

References

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