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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κάμῑνος (kámīnos).
Pronunciation
Noun
camīnus m (genitive camīnī); second declension
- fireplace
- furnace, forge
- (poetic) Vulcan's forge
- (figuratively) fire
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Unsorted borrowings:
References
Further reading
- “caminus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “caminus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- caminus 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)
- caminus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “caminus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “caminus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- “camínus” in Leo F. Stelten, editor (1995), Dictionary of ecclesiastical Latin: with an appendix of Latin expressions defined and clarified, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, page 34