Translingual

Camelus dromedarius

Proper noun

Camelus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Camelidae – the camels.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Animalia - kingdom; Chordata - phylum; Vertebrata - subphylum; Tetrapoda - superclass; Mammalia - class; Theria - subclass; Artiodactyla - order; Tylopoda - suborder; Camelidae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Camelus dromedarius - type species; Camelus bactrianus - other extant species

Latin

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Noun

camēlus m ‎(genitive camēlī); second declension

1. A camel

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• camēla
• Struthio camelus

Related terms

• camēlārius
• camelelasia
• camelinus
• camelopardalis
• camelopodion
• hippocamelus

Descendants

• Old French: chamel, cameil, camel, camuel
  • English: camel
  • Middle French: chameau
    • French: chameau
      • Haitian Creole: chamo
• Vulgar Latin: *camellus
  • Old Portuguese: camelo
    • Galician: camelo
    • Portuguese: camelo
  • Old Spanish: camello
    • Ladino: kameyo (Latin spelling)
    • Spanish: camello

References

• camelus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• camelus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• CAMELUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “camelus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.