ceamara

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Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English camera, from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), from Latin camera (“chamber or bedchamber”), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”).

Pronunciation

Noun

ceamara m (genitive singular ceamara, nominative plural ceamaraí)

  1. (photography) camera

Declension

Declension of ceamara (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative ceamara ceamaraí
vocative a cheamara a cheamaraí
genitive ceamara ceamaraí
dative ceamara ceamaraí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an ceamara na ceamaraí
genitive an cheamara na gceamaraí
dative leis an gceamara
don cheamara 		leis na ceamaraí

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • comhla (ceamara) (“shutter of camera”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of ceamara
radical lenition eclipsis
ceamara cheamara gceamara

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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