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English
Etymology
camera + -man
Noun
cameraman (plural cameramen)
- Somebody who operates a movie camera or television camera.
- Coordinate term: camerawoman
1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 24:‘We were getting a grand shot of a charging rhino when the cameraman got scared and bolted. The fathead!’
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Descendants
Translations
somebody who operates a film or TV camera
- Armenian: կինոօպերատոր (hy) (kinoōperator)
- Belarusian: кінаапера́тар m (kinaapjerátar)
- Catalan: cameràman m or f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 攝影者／摄影者 (shèyǐngzhě), 攝影師／摄影师 (zh) (shèyǐngshī)
- Czech: kameraman (cs) m
- Danish: kameramand c
- Esperanto: kameraisto
- Estonian: filmioperaator
- Faroese: myndamaður m
- Finnish: kuvaaja (fi), kameramies (fi)
- French: caméraman (fr) m, cadreur (fr) m
- Georgian: ოპერატორი (oṗeraṭori)
- German: Kameramann (de) m, Kamerafrau (de) f, Kameraoperateur m
- Greek: εικονολήπτης (el) m (eikonolíptis), εικονολήπτρια (el) f (eikonolíptria)
- Hungarian: operatőr (hu)
- Italian: operatore (it) m, addetto (it) m
- Japanese: 撮影技師 (さつえいぎし, satsuei gishi), カメラマン (kameraman)
- Korean: 카메라맨 (ko) (kameramaen)
- Marathi: कॅमेरामॅन m (kĕmerāmĕn)
- Norman: vidéoiste m or f
- Persian: فیلمبردار (filmbardâr)
- Polish: kamerzysta (pl) m
- Portuguese: cameraman m, câmera (pt) m
- Romanian: cameraman (ro) m
- Russian: киноопера́тор (ru) m (kinooperátor), телеопера́тор (ru) m (teleoperátor)
- Spanish: camarógrafo (es) m, camarógrafa (es) f, cámara (es) m or f
- Thai: ตากล้อง (th) (dtaa-glɔ̂ng)
- Turkish: kameraman (tr)
- Ukrainian: кіноопера́тор m (kinooperátor)
- Vietnamese: chuyên viên quay phim, chuyên viên ghi hình, người quay phim, người ghi hình
- Welsh: dyn camera m
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French
Noun
cameraman m (plural cameramen)
- Alternative form of caméraman
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English cameraman.
Pronunciation
Noun
cameraman m or f by sense (invariable)
- cameraman
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English cameraman.
Pronunciation
Noun
cameraman m (plural cameramen or cameramans)
- cameraman (somebody who operates a film or TV camera)
- Synonyms: câmara, operador de câmara, cinegrafista
Romanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from English cameraman.
Pronunciation
Noun
cameraman m (plural cameramani)
- cameraman (somebody who operates a film or TV camera)
Declension
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