camera
Learned borrowing 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”), of Old Iranian origin, from Proto-Iranian *kamarā- (“something curved”), from *kamárati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kmárati, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em- (“to bend, curve”). Doublet of chamber.
(device): A clipping of camera obscura, from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), because the first cameras used a pinhole and a dark room.
(Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈkæməɹə/, /ˈkæmɹə/
Hyphenation: ca‧me‧ra, cam‧era
camera (plural cameras or (rare) cameræ or (rare) camerae)
(photography) A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.
(computer graphics, video games) The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation.
A vaulted room.
A judge's private chamber, where cases may be heard in camera.
bicameral
camerated
camera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
“camera”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
“camera”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
“camera”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Macrae
Learned borrowing from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), from Latin camera (“chamber, bedchamber”).
IPA(key): /ˈkaː.mə.raː/
Hyphenation: ca‧me‧ra
camera f (plural camera's, diminutive cameraatje n)
camera
camcorder
kamer
webcam
Afrikaans: kamera
→ Indonesian: kamera
camera
third-person singular simple future of camer
IPA(key): /ˈka.me.ra/
camera (plural cameras)
room, chamber
From Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára). Doublet of zambra.
IPA(key): /ˈka.me.ra/
Rhymes: -amera
Hyphenation: cà‧me‧ra
camera f (plural camere, diminutive camerétta or camerìna or camerìno m or (literary) camerèlla, augmentative cameróna or cameróne m, pejorative cameràccia, derogatory camerùccia)
room; chamber (all senses)
Synonyms: stanza, sala
bedroom
assembly, parliament
camera (for taking moving pictures)
Synonym: telecamera
camerlengo
→ Arabic: قمرة (qamara, qamra)
→ Ottoman Turkish: قامره, قمارهTurkish: kamara→ Armenian: խամառա (xamaṙa)
→ Serbo-Croatian: kamara / камара
arcame, macera
From Latin camera.
camera f (plural cameres)
chamber, room
From Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”).
camara (Classical Latin)
cambra (Medieval Latin)
(Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈka.me.ra/, [ˈkämɛrä]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.me.ra/, [ˈkäːmerä]
camera f (genitive camerae); first declension
A chamber in its various senses, including:
A room, especially a vaulted room, a vault.
A deliberative body.
First-declension noun.
camella
camera obscura (New Latin)
→ Dutch: cameraAfrikaans: kamera→ Indonesian: kamera
→ English: camera (see there for further descendants)
→ German: Kamera→ Czech: kamera→ Estonian: kaamera→? Finnish: kamera
→ Swedish: kamera
concamerō
Many forms are from the variant camara.
Borrowings
“camera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“camera”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
camera 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)
camera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“chamber”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
(Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈka.me.raː/, [ˈkämɛräː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.me.ra/, [ˈkäːmerä]
camerā
second-person singular present active imperative of camerō
camera f
definite nominative/accusative singular of cameră
camera f (plural cameras)
female equivalent of camero
camera f
feminine singular of camero
Borrowed from English camera, from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára), of Old Iranian origin.
camera m (plural camerâu)
camera
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “camera”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies