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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κάμμαρος (kámmaros), from Pre-Greek. This term is potentially a cognate of Danish hummer, Old Norse humarr (“lobster”) (which is the source of French homard).
Pronunciation
Noun
cammarus m (genitive cammarī); second declension
- lobster
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
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
- cammarus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ 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, →ISBN, page 631