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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kæm]
• Rhymes: -æm

Etymology 1

Recorded since the 16th century, from Dutch kam (“cog of a wheel; originally, comb”) (cognate with English comb, and preserved in modern Dutch compounds such as kamrad, kamwiel (“cog wheel”))

Noun

cam (plural cams)

1. A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
2. A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
3. (Britain, dialect) A ridge or mound of earth.

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4. (rock climbing) A camming device, a spring-loaded device for effecting a temporary belay in a rock crevice.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• cam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• climbing cam

Etymology 2

Clipping of camera, from the first part of Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), itself from Ancient Greek ?????? (kamára, “vaulted chamber”), from Proto-Indo-European *kam- (“to arch”)

Noun

cam (plural cams)

1. (informal) Camera.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

cam (third-person singular simple present cams, present participle camming, simple past and past participle cammed)

1. To go on webcam with someone.

Etymology 3

Adverb

cam (comparative more cam, superlative most cam)

1. Alternative form of kam

Further reading

• cam in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• ACM, AMC, C.M.A., CMA, MAC, MCA, Mac, Mac-, Mac., mac

Acholi

Noun

cam

1. food

Caló

Etymology

Inherited from Romani kham, from Sanskrit ???? (gharmá, “hot weather, sunshine”).

Noun

cam m (plural cames)

1. (astronomy) sun

   Synonym: ocán

References

• “cam” in J. Tineo Rebolledo, A Chipicalli (La Llengua Gitana), Granada: Gómez de la Cruz, 1900, ?OCLC, page 26.
• “cam” in Francisco Quindalé, Diccionario gitano, Madrid: Oficina Tipográfica del Hospicio.
• “cam” in Vocabulario : Caló - Español, Portal del Flamenco y Universidad.

French

Etymology

From English cam, a shortening of camera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kam/

Noun

cam f (plural cams)

1. cam (device for filming)

Noun

cam m (uncountable)

1. (military, nautical) contre-amiral (rear admiral (RAdm))

Alternative forms

• (contre-amiral): CAm

Anagrams

• AMC

Galician

Noun

cam m (plural cans)

1. Alternative form of can

References

https://estraviz.org/cam

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish camm. The sense ‘bent, gay’ is a semantic loan from English bent.

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /kaum?/
• (Galway) IPA^(key): /k??m?/
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /kam?/

Adjective

cam (genitive singular masculine caim, genitive singular feminine caime, plural cama, comparative caime)

1. crooked
2. (offensive) bent (homosexual)

   Synonym: lúbtha

Declension

Mutation

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish camm

Adjective

cam (plural cammey)

1. crooked
2. deformed
3. deceitful
4. (of wood) knotty

Verb

cam (verbal noun cammey, past participle cammit)

1. bow, distort, hook (as finger), crank (of object)

Mutation

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Related to Persian ???? (jâm).

Noun

cam f

1. glass

Old Irish

Adjective

cam

1. Alternative spelling of camm

Declension

Mutation

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin quam, or more likely from camai, from Latin quam magis.

Adverb

cam

1. approximately, a little
2. rather

Related terms

• ca

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish camm

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?m/, /k?aum/

Adjective

cam

1. crooked, askew

Declension

First declension; forms of the positive degree:

Comparative/superlative: caime

Mutation

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian ???? (jâm).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?am/

Noun

cam (definite accusative cam?, plural camlar)

1. glass

Synonyms

• s?rça

Vietnamese

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from ? (“orange”).

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [ka?m??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [ka?m??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ka?m??]

Noun

(classifier cây, trái, qu?) cam

1. orange
2. Short for cam sành (“Citrus reticulata × sinensis”).

See also

Adjective

cam

1. made of oranges
2. (màu ~) of the colour orange

See also

Etymology 2

Short for camera.

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kam/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *kanksman, *kanxsman, from *kengeti.

Noun

cam m (plural camau)

1. step, pace, footstep
2. footfall (sound made by a footstep)
3. footprint
4. step (of a process), stage, phase

Derived terms

• cam a cham (“step by step”)
• camu (“to step”)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Brythonic *kam, from Proto-Celtic *kambos, from Proto-Indo-European *kam- (“to arch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kambo- (“crooked”). Compare Old Irish camm.

Adjective

cam (feminine singular cam, plural ceimion, equative camed, comparative camach, superlative camaf)

1. bent, crooked, distorted
2. wrong, false, incorrect
3. wrong, unjust

Derived terms

Noun

cam m (plural camau)

1. wrong, misdeed

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English cam.

Noun

cam m (plural camau)

1. cam

Mutation

References

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *c.ra?m? (“to ask”). Cognate with Thai ??? (t?am), Northern Thai ????, Lao ??? (th?m), Lü ??? (?haam), Shan ???? (th?am), Ahom ???????? (tham), ???????????? (tham) or ???????????????????? (thuem), Saek ????.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /?a?m??/
• Tone numbers: cam¹
• Hyphenation: cam

Verb

cam (old orthography cam)

1. to ask (to request an answer)
2. to inquire; to ask
3. to ask for instructions

English

Etymology

Blend of camel +? llama.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??m?/
• Rhymes: -??m?
• Homophone: comma (accents with the father-bother merger), karma (nonrhotic accents)

Noun

cama (plural camas)

1. A hybrid animal produced by breeding a camel and a llama.

Anagrams

• AACM, ACMA, MCAA, maca

Asturian

Etymology

From Late Latin cama.

Noun

cama f (plural cames)

1. bed (piece of furniture)

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin gamba (“horse's hock”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kamp?, “bend”). Doublet of gamba.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?ka.m?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ka.ma/

Noun

cama f (plural cames)

1. leg

   Synonym: gamba

French

Pronunciation

Verb

cama

1. third-person singular past historic of camer

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician / Old Portuguese cama, from Late Latin cama (6th century, Isidorus of Seville), probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?m?]

Noun

cama f (plural camas)

1. bed
   • 1484, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 127:

     Iten, mando mays á dita Contança Gonçales, miña muller, a quarta parte da adega dos Vrancos, por quanto eu e ela conpramos a metade da dita adega a Meen Suares Galinato, e mándolle mays a cuba en que teño o viño branco e mays outras duas cubas que son dentro ena dita adega aa maao esquerda, vasyas, que teñen cada una doze moyos de lagar, e mays lle mando una cama de roupa con quatro cabeçaás e un colchón e un almadraque e con suas sabaas e media duzia d'almofadas e con hua manta de picote, e se ouver em casa un par de colchas, que aja ela una delas.

     Item, I devise said Constanza González, my wife, a fourth of the wine cellar of Os Brancos, since we both bought a half of it from Men Suarez Galiñato; and I also bequeath a cask in which I have the white wine, and also two other casks that are inside that wine cellar, on the left, empty, each one having twelve modii; and also bequeath to her a clothed bed with four pillows and a mattress and a mat, and with its sheets and half a dozen cushions and a blanket of coarse linen, and if there is in the house a pair of quilts, she should have one of them

   Synonym: leito

2. platform of a cart
3. garden plot

References

• “cama” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “cama” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “cama” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “cama” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cama” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kam??/

Adjective

cama

1. nominative/vocative/dative/strong genitive plural of cam

Mutation

Latin

Etymology

Possibly from Ancient Greek ????? (khamaí) (close to the ground) as Isidorus said: "Cama est brevis [lectus] et circa terram; Graeci enim ????? breve dicunt" (Cama is a little [bed] close to the ground; the Greeks call ????? to small things). Other etymologies can include Celtic (Gaulish) or Iberian origin.

Noun

cama f (genitive camae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) bed
   • ca. 600, Isidorus Hispalensis [Isidore of Seville], Etymologiae, 19, 22, 29 & 20, 11, 2. In: Isidori Hispalensis episcopi etymologiarum sive originum libri XX. Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit W. M. Linday. Tomus II libros XI–XX continens, Oxonium, 1911:

     Camisias vocari quod in his dormimus in camis, id est in stratis nostris.

     Cama est brevis et circa terram; Graeci enim ????? breve dicunt.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Portuguese: cama
  • ? Chichewa: kama
  • ? Kabuverdianu: kama
• Spanish: cama
  • ? Bikol Central: kama
  • ? Maranao: kama
  • ? Tagalog: kama

Further reading

• cama in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cama in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Old Irish

Adjective

cama

1. Alternative spelling of camma

Mutation

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Late Latin cama, first attested in Isidore. Likely a borrowing from an Iberian substrate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka.ma/

Noun

cama f

1. bed

Descendants

• Galician: cama
• Portuguese: cama

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin camba, itself from From Ancient Greek ????? (kamp?). Eventually lost, likely due to homophony with cama (“bed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kama]

Noun

cama f (plural camas)

1. leg, thigh

References

• Fulk, Randal C. 1980. Old Spanish ''tiesta'' and ''cama''. Romance Notes 20. 441–447.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese cama, from Late Latin cama, first attested in Isidore. Likely a borrowing from an Iberian substrate.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?k?.m?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?k?.m?/, [?k??.m?]
• Hyphenation: ca?ma
• Rhymes: -ama

Noun

cama f (plural camas)

2. bed (furniture for sleeping on)

   Synonyms: leito, ninho

Derived terms

• saco-cama

See also

• quarto

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin cama, first attested in Isidore. Likely a borrowing from an Iberian substrate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kama/, [?ka.ma]

Noun

cama f (plural camas)

1. bed

   Synonym: (less common) lecho

Derived terms

Further reading

• “cama” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.