cámara

cámara f (plural cámares)

1. camera

• câmara (reintegrationist)

From Old Galician-Portuguese camara (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin camara, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “a vaulted chamber”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkamaɾa/
• Rhymes: -amaɾa

cámara f (plural cámaras)

1. chamber
   • c. 1450, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Historia de la Santa A. M. Iglesia de Santiago de Compostela, VII, p. 136:

     ítem mando que dentro enas ditas casas de miña morada seja apartadamente outra Cámara de libraría en que sejan postos todos meus libros en rroda et almarios

     Item, I order that, inside my houses where I reside, they build another chamber for library, and that they place in it all my books around in shelves

   1. namely, the main bedroom of a house
   2. the room used for deliberation by a legislature
   3. an enclosed space
   4. (archaic) toilet, bathroom
   5. (firearms) the area holding the ammunition round
2. camera
3. (nautical) cabin

• camarada
• Camarada
• camariña

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “camara”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “camara”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cámara”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cámara”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “cámara”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Inherited from Old Spanish camara, borrowed from Vulgar Latin camara, variant of Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “something with an arched cover, a vaulted chamber”). Doublet of cambra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkamaɾa/

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• Rhymes: -amaɾa
• Syllabification: cá‧ma‧ra

cámara f (plural cámaras)

2. room

   Synonym: cuarto

4. camera
6. chamber
8. legislature

   Synonym: legislatura

10. inner tube

    Synonym: tripa

12. (nautical) cabin

    Synonym: camarote

14. bowel movement

    Synonym: deposición

cámara m or f by sense (plural cámaras)

1. (cinematography) cameraman, camera operator (somebody who operates a movie camera or television camera)

   Synonym: camarógrafo

• “cámara”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
• cámara | Diccionario del español de México (colmex.mx)

• maraca