Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ma.ra/

Noun

camara f ‎(genitive camarae); first declension

1. Alternative spelling of camera

Declension

First declension.

References

• camara in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• camara in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• CAMARA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cămăra”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 249/2.
• camara in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• camara in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• camara in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “camara” on page 262 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• “camara” on page 117/1 of Jan Frederik Niermeyer’s Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus (1976)

Etymology 2

A regularly conjugated form of camarō ‎(verb).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ma.raː/

Verb

camarā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of camarō

Old Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ma.ɾa/

Noun

camara f

1. room, chamber
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 312 (facsimile):

     ⁊ poren dẽtr en ſa Caſa lle deu en que a lauraſſe / hũa Camara fremoſa

     and for this reason he gave him a beautiful chamber inside his house in which to carve it

Descendants

• Galician: cámara
• Portuguese: câmara, cambra
  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: kamara
  • Hindi: कमरा ‎(kamrā)
  • Indo-Portuguese: cambr, cambra
  • Kabuverdianu: kánbra
  • Kristang: kambra
  • Tetum: kámara
  • Urdu: کمرا ‎(kamrā)

Portuguese

Noun

camara f (plural camaras)

1. Obsolete spelling of câmara