Latin

Alternative forms

• camarus
• gammarus

Noun

cammarus m ‎(genitive cammarī); second declension

1. lobster

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• Italian: gambero
• Occitan: chambre, gambre
• Old French: jamble
• Portuguese: camarão
• Spanish: cámaro, cámbaro, gámbaro

References

• cammarus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cammarus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cammarus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

1. ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “κάμμαρος 1”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 631