ceamara

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English camera, from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), from Latin camera (“chamber or bedchamber”), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈcamˠəɾˠə]

Noun

ceamara m (genitive singular ceamara, nominative plural ceamaraí)

1. (photography) camera

Declension

Declension of ceamara

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative ceamara ceamaraí Vocative a cheamara a cheamaraí Genitive ceamara ceamaraí Dative ceamara ceamaraí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an ceamara na ceamaraí Genitive an cheamara na gceamaraí Dative leis an gceamara don cheamara leis na ceamaraí

Synonyms

• grianghrafadán

Derived terms

• físcheamara (“video camera”)

Related terms

• comhla (ceamara) (“shutter of camera”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
ceamara	cheamara	gceamara
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ceamara”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN