camelus

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See also: Camelus

Latin

Camelus bactrianus

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κάμηλος (kámēlos, “camel”), from a Semitic language; compare Arabic جَمَل (jamal) and Hebrew גָּמָל (gamál).

Pronunciation

Noun

camēlus m (genitive camēlī, feminine camēla); second declension

  1. a camel

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative camēlus camēlī
genitive camēlī camēlōrum
dative camēlō camēlīs
accusative camēlum camēlōs
ablative camēlō camēlīs
vocative camēle camēlī

Derived terms

Descendants

Inherited from the form camellus:

Borrowed:

Further reading

  • “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • camelus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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