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English

Etymology

From Latin camera (“chamber or bedchamber”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”). 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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?kæm???/, /?kæm??/
• Hyphenation: ca?me?ra, cam?era

Noun

camera (plural cameras or (rare) cameræ)

1. A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.
2. (computer graphics, video games) The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation.
   • 2006, Patrick O'Luanaigh, Game Design Complete

     I'm talking about the way the camera flies up above the skater when you leap into the air. No one had done it before.

3. A vaulted room.
4. The judge's private chamber, where cases may be heard in camera.

Derived terms

Related terms

• camerated

Descendants

Translations

Further reading

• camera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• camera in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• camera in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• camera at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Macrae

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), from Latin camera (“chamber, bedchamber”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka?.m?.ra?/
• Hyphenation: ca?me?ra

Noun

camera f (plural camera's, diminutive cameraatje n)

1. camera

Derived terms

• cameralens
• cameraman
• cameraploeg
• cameraval
• cameravrouw
• digitale camera
• fotocamera
• spiegelreflexcamera
• videocamera

Related terms

• camcorder
• kamer
• webcam

Descendants

• Afrikaans: kamera
• ? Indonesian: kamera

French

Verb

camera

1. third-person singular simple future of camer

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka.me.ra/

Noun

camera (plural cameras)

1. room, chamber

Italian

Etymology

From Latin camera, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kamára). Doublet of zambra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka.me.ra/

Noun

camera f (plural camere)

1. room; chamber (all senses)
2. bedroom
3. assembly, parliament
4. camera (for taking moving pictures)

   Synonym: telecamera

Derived terms

Related terms

• camerlengo

Descendants

• ? Arabic: ????? (qamara, qamra)
• ? Serbo-Croatian: kamara / ??????

Anagrams

• macera

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin camera.

Noun

camera f (plural cameres)

1. chamber, room

Latin

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ?????? (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”).

Alternative forms

• camara (classical)
• cambra (medieval)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ka.me.ra/, [?käm??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ka.me.ra/, [?k??m???]

Noun

camera f (genitive camerae); first declension

1. A chamber in its various senses, including:
   1. A room, especially a vaulted room, a vault.
   2. A deliberative body.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• camella
• camera obscura (New Latin)
  • ? Dutch: camera
    • Afrikaans: kamera
    • ? Indonesian: kamera
  • ? English: camera (see there for further descendants)
  • ? German: Kamera
  • ? Swedish: kamera
• concamer?

Descendants

See also descendants at camara.

Borrowings

Unsorted borrowings

References

• 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, 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.

Etymology 2

A regularly conjugated form of camer? (verb).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ka.me.ra?/, [?käm??ä?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ka.me.ra/, [?k??m???]

Verb

camer?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of camer?

Romanian

Noun

camera f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of camer?

Spanish

Adjective

camera f

1. feminine singular of camero

Noun

camera f (plural cameras, masculine camero, masculine plural cameros)

1. female equivalent of camero