chambre

See also: chambré and chàmbre

English

Noun

chambre (plural chambres)

1. Obsolete spelling of chamber.

Anagrams

• becharm, chamber

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Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin camera.

Noun

chambre f (plural chambres)

1. room

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French

Etymology

From Old French chambre, cambre, from Latin camera (“room”), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “something with an arched cover: a covered wagon, a covered boat, a vaulted chamber”). Doublet of caméra, a borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɑ̃bʁ/

• audio:

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Noun

chambre f (plural chambres)

1. A chamber in its various senses, including:
   • 1876, "C" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 616:

     ...before a in French an original c has the sound sh, and is spelt ch, as in champ (campus), chambre (camera).

   1. A room.
   2. A hotel room.
   3. A bedroom.
   4. A house of a parliament.

Derived terms

• chambre à air
• chambre à coucher
• chambre basse
• chambre de combustion
• chambre des communes
• chambre d’ami
• chambre d’hôte
• chambre haute
• chambre noire
• chambrée

 

Descendants

• Antillean Creole: chanm
• Haitian Creole: chanm
• → Norman: chambre, chàmbre (Guernsey)

Further reading

• “chambre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French chambre, from Latin camera, camara, from Ancient Greek κᾰμᾰ́ρᾱ (kamárā).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃaːmbrə/, /ˈtʃambrə/, /ˈtʃau̯mbrə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃaːmbər/, /ˈtʃambər/, /ˈtʃau̯mbər/

Noun

chambre (plural chambres)

1. room; chamber

Alternative forms

• chaumbre, chaumber, chaumer, chamer, chamber

Derived terms

• chambre forene

Descendants

• English: chamber
• Scots: chaumer
  • → Scottish Gaelic: seòmar

Etymology 2

Adjective

chambre

1. Alternative form of caumber

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Norman

Alternative forms

• chàmbre (Guernsey)

Etymology

Borrowed from French chambre, from Old French chambre, from Latin camera.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Jersey):

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Noun

chambre f (plural chambres)

1. (Jersey) bedroom

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Novial

Noun

1. room (division in a building)

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Old French

Alternative forms

• cambre, chanbre, canbre

Etymology

From Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára).

Noun

chambre oblique singular, f (oblique plural chambres, nominative singular chambre, nominative plural chambres)

1. room
2. chamber (of a building)
3. bedroom, sleeping quarters

Derived terms

• camberete (Old Northern French)
  • → Middle Dutch: cambret
    • → Middle French: cabaret
      • French: cabaret

Descendants

• French: chambre
  • Antillean Creole: chanm
  • Haitian Creole: chanm
  • → Norman: chambre, chàmbre (Guernsey)
• → Irish: seomra
• → Middle Armenian: ջամբռ (ǰambṙ)
• → Middle English: chambre, chaumbre, chaumber, chaumer, chamer, chamber
  • English: chamber
  • Scots: chaumer
    • → Scottish Gaelic: seòmar