Translingual

Proper noun

Camus

1. A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Giulio Camus (1847-1917).

English

Proper noun

Camus

1. A French surname​.
2. Albert Camus, French author and philosopher

Translations

French

Proper noun

Camus

1. A surname​ of Basque origin

English

Noun

camus

1. Obsolete form of camis.

French

Etymology

Origin uncertain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.my/

Adjective

camus m ‎(feminine singular camuse, masculine plural camus, feminine plural camuses)

1. flat-nosed

Latin

Etymology

Likely derived from Ancient Greek κημός ‎(kēmós, “muzzle, nose-bag; face-mask; necklace”).

Noun

cāmus m ‎(genitive cāmī); second declension

1. A kind of collar for the neck; necklace (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
2. (Late Latin) collar, muzzle (as for a horse)
3. (New Latin) neck of an animal
   • 2003 (from English, 1998), Johanna Rowling, tr. Petrus Needham, Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis Chapter 9, (much of this passage missing from the most readily available French translation)

     tempus erat cenae. Harrius modo Ronaldo dixerat quid accidisset cum a campis cum Professore McGonagall discessisset. Ronaldus frustum crustuli camis-bovillae-et-renium ad os admoverat, sed id omnino oblitus erat.

     It was time for dinner. Harrius had just told Ronaldus what happened on the fields with Schoolmistress McGonagall and what she had said. Ronaldus had brought a bit of beef-neck and kidney pastry to his mouth, but he had forgotten about it entirely.

Inflection

Second declension.

References

• camus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• camus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “camus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• camus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• camus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin